November 07

Maria Sklodowska, later known as Marie Curie, was born in Warsaw on November 7, 1867. (modern-day Poland). Curie was the youngest of five siblings, the others being Zosia, Józef, Bronya, and Hela. Marie Curie was the first woman to get a Nobel Prize in Physics, and with her subsequent triumph in Chemistry, she became the first person to receive two Nobel Prizes. Her collaboration with her husband Pierre resulted in the discovery of polonium and radium, and she pushed for the creation of X-rays.
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