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Marie Curie
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What is Marie Curie famous for? A Polish-born French physicist and chemist, Marie Curie is famous for her work on radioactivity and the first person ever to receive two Nobel Prizes. In 1903, she became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize for Physics. The award, jointly awarded to Curie, her husband Pierre, and Henri Becquerel, was for their discovery of radioactivity. Her second Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1911 for the discovery of the radioactive elements polonium and radium. The curie is a basic unit of measurement for describing radioactivity. Also on this day ..... 7 November - Daylight Saving time ends in America.
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Marie Skłodowska Curie was born on 7 November 1867. Back to Facts of the Day Calendar
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