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When was she born?
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7 November 1867
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Where was she born?
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Warsaw
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What empire was above in?
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Russian Empire
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What was her maiden name?
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Skłodowska
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When did she graduate from her gymnasium (secondary school)?
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1883
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Who was the man she wanted to marry but couldn't because they were relatives of her father, he became a eminent mathematician?
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Kazimierz Żorawski
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Where did she live in 1880-1889?
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Paris
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What university did she enrol, after returning back to above, in 1891?
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University of Paris
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What degree was she awarded in 1893?
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physics
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What university declined her a place because of sexism in academia, when she returned to her home country?
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Kraków University
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Who did she marry?
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Pierre Curie
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When did they marry?
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26 July 1895
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Who was her first daughter, born in 1897, she later won a noble prize in Chemistry with her husband in 1935?
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Irène
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What element did Curie experiment on, with her husband's electrometer?
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uranium
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What element did Curie and her husband discover in their joint paper in July 1898, named after her home country?
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polonium
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What other element did Curie and her husband discover in the same year, December 1898?
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radium
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What word did they coin on their research of the two elements above?
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radioactivity
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In 1900, what institution did she become first faculty member of?
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École Normale Supérieure
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What man did Curie supervise in 1903, who won a Nobel prize in physics in 1908?
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Gabriel Lippmann
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What institution was she and her husband invited to make a speech in, but she wasn't allowed to speak because she was a woman?
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Royal Institution
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What Swedish mathematician, who was an advocate for woman scientists, made a complaint to the Nobel committee, that enabled Curie to receive a Nobel prize in physics with her husband, in 1903?
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Magnus Gösta Mittag-Leffler
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Who also won the joint Nobel prize with Curie and her husband for discovering radioactivity?
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Henri Becquerel
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How many women won the Nobel prize before Curie?
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zero
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Who was her second daughter, born in 1904, the only one of her family to not win the Nobel prize but her husband won the Nobel peace prize in 1965 on behalf of UNICEF?
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Ève Denise Curie Labouisse
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What did Curie's husband die of, on 19 April 1906?
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he got runover by a a horse-drawn vehicle
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What institute was created for Curie and headed by her, in 1809?
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Radium Institute (now Curie Institute)
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When did did she isolate the element, they discovered in December 1898, into pure metal?
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1910
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Who was curie romantically involved with, in 1511, that resulted in a press scandal as he was married?
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Paul Langevin
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In 1911, she was awarded a Nobel prize in what field, which made her the first person to win or share two Nobel prizes and one of two people that have one a Nobel prize in two fields?
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chemistry
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What position did she become director of at the start of WW1?
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Red Cross Radiology Service
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What element did Curie use to sterilise infected tissue, which is estimated to have treated over a million wounded soldiers?
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radon
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What did the French government try to award Curie for her contribution to WW1, but she refused it?
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Legion of Honour award
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When did Marie Curie die?
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4 July 1934
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What did she die of - believed to be contracted from her long-term exposure to radiation?
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aplastic anaemia
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What book did she write the year of her death, which was posthumously published a year after?
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Radioactivity
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