Curie

	Marie Curie was born in 1867.  She was Polish. Marie Curie was a scientist.  She was studying at university in Paris.  She met and married a French scientist called Pierre. Pierre was a professor at the university.
Marie and Pierre worked together.  They discovered radium.  Radium is a special metal.  Radium is used to help fight diseases. In 1903 they won a Nobel prize for physics.  She won again in 1911 for chemistry.   Pierre died in 1906.  Marie became the first woman professor of physics at the University in Paris. Marie died in 1934.
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