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PHYSICIST-CHEMIST/1867-1934

Born in Warsaw, Maria Curie conducted pioneering research on radioactivity and won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of two elements, polonium and radium. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.
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Nobel Prize in Physics and in Chemistry
Founded the Curie Institutes in Paris and in Warsaw
Cause of death: Aplastic anemia from exposure to radiation

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PHYSICIST-CHEMIST
1867-1934
Born in Warsaw, she conducted pioneering research on radioactivity and discovered two new elements, polonium and radium.
She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.
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The only person to win a Nobel Prize in two sciences (Physics and Chemistry)
Cause of death: exposure to radiation

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Thomas Edison was born on February 11 1847 and died on October 18,1931. He was an American inventor and businessman. He was the most productive inventor of his age. Although he was self-taught, he was active in many fields of technology. Among his best inventions are  the microphone and the light bulb.
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BIOLOGIST / 1881-1955
Sir Alexander Fleming was a Scottish biologist and pharmacologist who researched bacteriology, immunology and chemotherapy.

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Inventor-scientist-engineer

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SCIENTIST-INVENTOR1847-1922

Alexander Graham Bell was born in Scotland . He was an eminent scientist and engineer. He is considered the inventor of the first telephone.