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1 (of 10) Portrait of Marie Curie (1934).

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2 (of 10) The Curie Pavillion at the Radium Institute in 1925.

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3 (of 10) Marie Curie and her daughter Irène in the laboratory at the Radium Institute in Paris, France, 1921.

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4 (of 10) Marie Curie in her chemistry laboratory at the Radium Institute in France, April 1921.

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5 (of 10) Marie Curie and her daughter Irène at the Hoogstade Hospital in Belgium, 1915. Radiographic equipment is installed.

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6 (of 10) Marie Curie and four of her students. (Photo taken between 1910 and 1915.)

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7 (of 10) Marie Curie and her daughters Irène and Eve sitting on a bench in the garden (1905).

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8 (of 10) On 25 June 1903 Marie Curie defended her doctoral thesis on radioactive substances at Université de la Sorbonne in Paris, thus becoming the first woman in France to receive a doctoral degree. Image shows the thesis cover: Recherches sur les substances radioactives (Research on Radioactive Substances).

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9 (of 10) Pierre and Marie Curie in the "hangar" at l'Ecole de physique et chimie industrielles in Paris, France, where they made their discovery. (Photo taken 1898.)

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10 (of 10) Wedding photo of Pierre and Marie Curie, 1895.

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