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first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only woman to win the award in two different fields (physics and chemistry)
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discovery of polonium and radium
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the development of X-rays
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died on July 4, 1934
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youngest of five children
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a bright and curious mind and excelled at school.
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continued her education in Warsaw's "floating university,
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informal classes held in secre
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five years, Curie worked as a tutor and a governess
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spare time to study, reading about physics, chemistry and math.
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1891, Curie finally made her way to Paris where she enrolled at the Sorbonne in Pari
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completed her master's degree in physics in 1893 and earned another degree in mathematics the following year
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Curie took Becquerel's work a few steps further, conducting her own experiments on uranium rays.
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rays remained constant, no matter the condition or form of the uranium
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This revolutionary idea created the field of atomic physics and Curie herself coined the word radioactivity to describe the phenomena.
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