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Two Nobel Prizes. Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911, a rare double honor.
New elements. She discovered two brand-new chemical elements and named them radium and polonium (polonium after her home country, Poland).
Polish and French. She was born in Poland and later became a French citizen, doing her famous research in France.
Team with Pierre. She shared her first Nobel Prize with her husband Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel for studying radioactivity.
Word she coined. Marie Curie helped create the very idea of 'radioactivity,' a word and concept she pioneered.
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