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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1911 "in recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element"
Marie Curie, née Sklodowska France Sorbonne University Paris, France b. 1867 (in Warsaw, Poland, then Russian Empire)
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Chemistry 1911
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