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IN GOOD HEALTH

▲ IN HER LABORATORY
Marie Curie works in her laboratory at the
LIFE STORY Sorbonne University in Paris, France, in 1911.
1867 1891 1897 1903

Marie Sklodowska is born She moves to Paris to Her first daughter, Irene, The Curies are awarded
on November 7 in Warsaw, study and meets Pierre is born. She also becomes the Nobel Prize in
Poland. As a teenager, she Curie, a professor at the a scientist, winning a Nobel Physics, making Marie
studies science in secret at Sorbonne University. They Prize in Chemistry in 1935. the first woman to
the Flying University. later marry, in 1895. achieve this honor.
Irene Curie

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