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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.”

~ Maria Salomea Skłodowska aka Marie Curie.

~ Born 7 November 1867 Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire.

~ Died 4 July 1934 Passy, Haute-Savoie, France.

~ Russian physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.

~ She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win a Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields.

~ Her husband, Pierre Curie, was a co-winner of her first Nobel Prize, making them the first-ever married couple to win the Nobel Prize and launching the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes.
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~ She was, in 1906, the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris.