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Marie Curie grew up in Warsaw, Poland where she was born on November 7, 1867.
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Marie went to Paris to study at Sorbonne.
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Marie married Pierre Curie, which was when her name became Marie Curie.
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Marie and her husband, Pierre, were awarded a Nobel Prize for their work with radioactivity.
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Marie and her sister started a research facility to help fight cancer. It is still opened today and is called the Marie Sklodowska Curie Oncology Center.
