Marie Curie

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M.C.(born M.S.), a 2-time Nobel winner Marie Curie $800 DJ SCIENTIFIC INITIALS 2022-03-22 #8602
For things like discovering polonium & radium, she & her husband Pierre won the Nobel Prize for Physics Marie Curie $400 DJ WOMEN SCIENTISTS 2019-09-20 #8055
The first woman to teach at the Sorbonne, she published a treatise on radioactivity in 1910 Marie Curie $400 DJ SCIENTISTS 2010-01-20 #5838
Sadly, both she & her daughter Irene died of leukemia caused by overexposure to radiation Marie Curie $400 DJ SCIENTISTS 2008-06-04 #5478
On the front lines during WWI, she drove ambulances that she had helped equip with X-ray machines Marie Curie FJ SCIENTISTS 2007-02-07 #5163
In 1929 President Hoover presented her with a $50,000 check to purchase a gram of radium for a lab in Warsaw Marie Curie $400 DJ SCIENTISTS 2004-04-19 #4526
Upon her husband's death in 1906, she succeeded him as Professor of Physics at the Sorbonne Marie Curie $200 J SCIENTISTS 2003-10-29 #4403
Sadly, both she & her daughter Irene died of leukemia caused by overexposure to radiation Marie Curie $400 J SCIENTISTS 2002-05-30 #4099
Her daughter Irene also received a Nobel Prize in Chemistry Marie Curie $100 J SCIENTISTS 2000-07-18 #3672
In 1891 she moved from Poland to Paris, where she studied math & physics at the Sorbonne Marie Curie $400 DJ SCIENTISTS 1998-05-06 #3163
In 1893 she earned a physics degree from the Sorbonne, ranking first in her class Marie Curie $200 DJ SCIENTISTS 1997-06-02 #2951
Her book "Radioactivite" was published posthumously in 1935 Marie Curie $200 DJ FAMOUS SCIENTISTS 1995-12-15 #2600
She coined the term radioactivity in the 1890s Marie Curie $200 DJ SCIENTISTS 1995-01-18 #2393
Sadly, both she & her daughter Irene, also a scientist, died of leukemia caused by radiation Marie Curie $200 DJ FAMOUS SCIENTISTS 1993-11-18 #2119
She shared a Nobel Prize in 1903, & her daughter Irene shared one in 1935 Marie Curie $400 DJ SCIENTISTS 1991-04-03 #1528
This chemist was born Marie Sklodowska in 1867 in Warsaw, Poland Marie Curie $200 J SCIENTISTS 1990-11-14 #1428
Her second Nobel Prize, awarded in 1911, was for her work in chemistry Marie Curie $200 DJ SCIENTISTS 1990-03-19 #1286
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