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Mrs. Irene Curie was born in Paris on this date.
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Irene Curie graduated from Sevigne College and then went to the University of Paris.
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Irene temporarily left her studies to become a nurse radiographer.
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Irene went back to the University of Paris where she recieved her Ph.D.
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Irene became Doctor of Science in this year, she made a thesis on the alpha rays of polonium. ( Which couldn't be found what it stated.)
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She married her lovely husband and former physicist Frederic.
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Irene and her came up with the first simulated radioactivity in atoms from stable elements.
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Irene and her husband were both awarded with The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for that great discovery.
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Irene researched athe action of neutrons. ( This was a very important step in the discovery of uranium fission.)
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She was pronounced the Director of the Radium Institute.
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Irene assisted her husband and other scientists with the establishing of France's first atomic pile.
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Irene was exempt from her work because of her afflilation with the French Communist party. ( Which her husband founded.)
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Irene was trying to fight her leukemia that came because of the exposure to all of the radioactive elements.
