Marie Curie
By Jone Johnson Lewis, About.com Guide
Marie Curie in Laboratory, 1920
Marie Curie in Laboratory, 1920
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After winning two Nobel Prizes, in 1903 and 1911, Marie Curie continued her work teaching and researching. She is shown here in her laboratory in 1920, the year that she established the Curie Foundation to explore medical uses of radium. Her daughter Irene was working with her by 1920.
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