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The discovery of radioactivity

She processed tons of ore to isolate a few grams of an invisible element.

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Marie Curie, born Maria Skłodowska, was the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize. She is still the only person to have won two of them in two different sciences: physics, then chemistry.

Her subject was radioactivity, the fact that certain atoms spontaneously give off energy and particles.

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