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Marie Curie

Award received: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q44585&amp;oldid=2564246499" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Nobel Prize in Chemistry · dated 1911
Notable work: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q24041517&amp;oldid=2541658017" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Treatise on Radioactivity
Employer: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q209842&amp;oldid=2560070998" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">University of Paris
Public office: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q121594&amp;oldid=2561064827" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">professor
Education: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q3064332&amp;oldid=2562102564" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Science Faculty of Paris
Award received: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q38104&amp;oldid=2554687416" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Nobel Prize in Physics · dated 1903

Wikidata describes Marie Curie as Polish-born French physicist and chemist (1867–1934).

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