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- NAME: Marie Curie
- OCCUPATION: Physicist
- BIRTH DATE: November 07, 1867
- DEATH DATE: July 04, 1934
- EDUCATION: Sorbonne
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Warsaw, Poland
- PLACE OF DEATH: France
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Marie Curie was a Polish-born French physicist famous for her work on radioactivity and twice a winner of the Nobel Prize.
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In 1995, her and her husband's remains were interred in the Panthéon in Paris, the final resting place of many France's greatest minds. Curie became the first and only woman to be laid to rest there.
Curie also passed down her love of science to the next generation. Her daughter Irène Joliot-Curie followed in her mother's footsteps,
winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935. Joliot-Curie shared the honor with her husband Frédéric Joliot for their work on their synthesis of new radioactive elements.
Today several educational and research institutions and medical centers bear the Curie name, including the Institute Curie and the Pierre and Marie Curie University, both in Paris.
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