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Marie Curie (1867 - 1934) and Pierre Curie (1859 - 1906) were
scientists who studied radioactivity and discovered the elements of
radium and polonium. They were married in 1895. Because of their work
or radioactivity and their discovery of radium in 1898, they were
awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903. When Pierre was killed
three years later, Marie took over his job as professor at the Sorbonne
University in Paris. In 1911, she was given a second Nobel Prize for
chemistry.
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