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Curie, Marie
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née Manya Sklodowska
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pronunciation:
[kyooree]
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| Physicist, born in Warsaw, Poland, who worked in Paris with her French husband Pierre Curie (1859–1906) on magnetism and radioactivity. She emigrated to France in 1891, and studied at the Sorbonne where she met and married Pierre Curie (1895), who became professor of physics there in 1901. Together they discovered and isolated polonium and radium in 1898. Pierre and his brother, Jacques Curie, discovered piezoelectricity. For her thesis she studied the ‘rays’ earlier discovered by Becquerel, and the Curies shared the 1903 Nobel Prize for Physics with Becquerel for the discovery of radioactivity. After her husband's death in a road accident (1906), Mme Curie succeeded to his chair. She published her fundamental treatise on radioactivity in 1910 and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1911. She died of leukaemia, probably caused by long exposure to radiation. |
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