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Marie Curie


Born
in Warsaw, Poland
November 07, 1867

Died
July 04, 1934

Genre
Science

Influences
Pierre Curie, Henri Becquerel, Harriet Brooks, Albert Einstein ...more


Marie Curie (born Maria Skłodowska; also known as Maria Skłodowska-Curie) was a physicist and chemist of Polish upbringing and, subsequently, French citizenship. She was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity, the first and only person honored with Nobel Prizes in two different sciences, and the first female professor at the University of Paris.

She was born in Warsaw, Vistulan Country, Russian Empire, and lived there until she was 24. In 1891 she followed her elder sister Bronisława to study in Paris, where she obtained her higher degrees and conducted her scientific work. She founded the Curie Institutes in Paris and Warsaw. She was the wife of fellow-Nobel-laureate Pierre Curie and the mother of a third Nobel laureate, Irène Joliot-Curie ...more

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Maria Skłodowska-Curie. O m...
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Autobiografia
3.97 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 1923 — 12 editions
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Radioactive Substances
4.31 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1904 — 110 editions
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Escritos biográficos
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The Discovery of the Radium
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“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
― Marie Curie
tags: fear, life, science, understanding
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“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
― Marie Curie
tags: curiousity, gossip, humanity, ideas, intelligence
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“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.”
― Marie Curie
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