Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Marie Curie is a noted contributor to Encyclopaedia Britannica online. Read Britannica's biography of Marie Curie
BIOGRAPHY

Polish-born French physicist, famous for her work on radioactivity and twice a winner of the Nobel Prize. Curie contributed to the 13th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

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Marie Curie
For the 13th edition (1926) of the Encyclopædia Britannica, Marie Curie, cowinner of the 1903 Nobel Prize for Physics and winner of the 1911 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, wrote the entry on radium with her daughter Irène Curie, later Irène Joliot-Curie and cowinner of the 1935 Nobel Prize for…
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