[Wism-l] Marie Curie

[Flora Grabowska]

FACT OF THE DAY

On this day in 1867 scientific genius Marie Curie was born in Warsaw. 
She and her husband Pierre shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903 
and she was awarded a second Nobel eight years later for her 
discovery of radium.
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