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**__Marie Curie__**

She was the first to discover the term radioactive. It helps us today, better understand matter and energy.

She came up with different types of radiation. Marie met Pierre Curie and they got married. The two worked together discover two new elements uranium and polonium.

Marie Curie won two nobel prizes, for her discovery in physics Curie was the first woman recipient of the Nobel Prize in 1903 and in 1911 she was the first woman to ever win a second nobel prize, she won that in chemistry for isolating pure radium.

Marie Curie died of over exposure to radiation, in 1934.

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