French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes; one (with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and polonium (1867-1934)
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1 Fortunately the student was a recent émigré from Poland named Marie Curie .
2 Zala turned to run, but Curie slammed a leg in our way.
3 Amid those adventures, Hevesy continued to collaborate with colleagues, including Joliot - Curie .
4 On that day, Prof Curie had intended to visit his publisher.
5 I said if he was an artist, I was Madame Curie .
1 I said if he was an artist, I was Madame Curie .
2 That's why they never mention Madame Curie without the poor Monsieur!
3 You read about the discoveries of Madame Curie and the history of the countries bordering Iraq.
4 And Madame Curie descended into a bestial state.
5 One of our most distinguished and most welcome visitors was Madame Curie , the discoverer of radium.
1 Fortunately the student was a recent émigré from Poland named Marie Curie .
2 Marie Curie , Ben Franklin and Thomas Edison more-or-less abandoned their families.
3 Her hero is Marie Curie , another Polish scientist who won two Nobel prizes.
4 It is, of course, the 100th anniversary of Marie Curie 's Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
5 In 1995, Pierre and Marie Curie 's remains were transferred to the Panthéon in Paris.
6 Though I have to say some of them do Marie Curie very few favours.
7 Two of the four, Marie Curie and Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, won unshared Chemistry Prizes.
8 Working with her husband, Pierre, Marie Curie identified two new elements Polonium and Radium.
9 All I write about Marie Curie and Joan of Arc was how they died.
10 Marie Curie called the new element radium, from the Greek word for "light."
11 Previous winners of the physics prize have included Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr and Marie Curie .
12 Pierre and Marie Curie worked tirelessly to research radioactivity, a term that Marie coined herself.
13 The Polish-French scientist Marie Curie first discovered polonium at the end of the 19th Century.
14 That was Frankie's cross to bear-she was Marie Curie trapped in Marilyn Monroe's body.
15 Marie Curie Two time Nobel Prize winner and the person responsible for our understanding of radioactivity.
16 Who got the prize last year, Marie Curie ?
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