Physicist Marie Curie
1930
French physicist Marie Curie, born in Poland, discovered radium and won the Nobel Prize in 1903 (physics) and 1911 (chemistry). She was the first woman awarded a Nobel Prize.
Physicist Marie Curie in 1930
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