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Marie Curie with Female Students, 1912
Marie Curie with Female Students

Marie Curie posed with female students in France, 1912

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In 1909, after the death of her husband Pierre in 1906 and after her first Nobel Prize (1903) for her laboratory work, Marie Curie won an appointment as professor at the Sorbonne, the first woman appointed to a professorship there. She's best known for her laboratory work, resulting in two Nobel Prizes (one in physics, one in chemistry), and also for encouraging her daughter to work as a scientist.

Less well known: her encouragement of female science students. Here she is shown in 2012 with four female students in Paris.

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