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What woman discovered radium and polonium?

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Marie Curie.

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Marie Curie lived from November 7, 1867, to July 4, 1934. She was born in Warsaw, Poland, which was then part of the Russian Empire and she died in Sancellemoz, Haute-Savoie, France. She discovered radium and polonium while studying the radioactive properties of uranium ore. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and the first person to win the Nobel Prize twice. She lived from

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Marie Curie, the woman who changed science!!
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