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In 2018 this Pole topped a BBC poll of women who changed the world |
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During WWI she supported the French war effort by fitting ambulances with portable X-ray equipment |
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In 1921 at Vassar she began a speech, "I could tell you many things about radium and radioactivity" |
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Amundsen reached the South Pole in December 1911, a few days after she received her second Nobel Prize |
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Denied a college education in her own country, in 1903 she became the first woman in France to earn her doctorate |
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Like mother, like daughter: her daughter Irene Joliot-Curie also won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
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2004-05-06 |
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Pioneering turn-of-the-century scientist seen here |
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The first woman to win a Nobel Prize, she won for Physics in 1903 & for Chemistry in 1911 |
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This scientist was born in 1867 in Poland with the name Marja Sklodowska |
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2000-10-02 |
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In 1995, 61 years after her death, she became the 1st woman entombed in France's Pantheon in her own right |
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This scientist was the 1st woman to win a Nobel Prize, & the 1st person to win it twice |
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1995-02-17 |
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During WWI this French scientist was rushed to the front lines to X-ray wounded soldiers |
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1993-02-18 |
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Following this mother's lead, Irene Joliot Curie also won a Nobel Prize for chemistry |
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1987-05-04 |
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