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Noun: Marie Curie
  1. French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes; one (with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and polonium (1867-1934)
    - Curie, Madame Curie, Marya Sklodowska

Type of: chemist

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