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Curie, Marie


(KYOOR-ee, kyoo-REE) A French chemist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, born in Poland. With her husband, Pierre Curie, she discovered the element radium.	1
‡ Marie Curie was the first major female scientist of modern times.	2
‡ Marie Curie was the only person ever to win the Nobel Prize in two different sciences (physics and chemistry).	3

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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