Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1911

Marie Curie, née Sklodowska

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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1911 was awarded to Marie Curie, née Skłodowska "in recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element"

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