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Marie Curie was born on the 7th of November 1867 in Warsaw, Poland
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Marie went to Paris to study at Sorbonne.
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Marie got married to Pierre Curie which is how she got her last name "Curie"
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Marie Curie and Pierre Curie discover Polonium while investigating radioactivity in pitchblende (uranium oxide).
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Marie was hired to do some experiments, While working on them she discovered pure radium.
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They where awarded with a Nobel Prize for their work with radioactivity.
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Marie's creation the x-ray was used in WW1 to locate where the soldiers had been shot and where the bullet had hit them.
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Marie became a member of the French Academy of Medicine in 1922
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Marie got sick and died shortly after because of too much exposure to radiation
