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Marie Curie: Media
Polish-born French physicist
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Alan Alda discussing the work of Marie Curie, the subject of his 2011 play Radiance:...
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During World War I Marie Curie developed a fleet of mobile radiological labs to bring...
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Maria Skłodowska (later Marie Curie; standing) and her sister Bronisława Skłodowska,...
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Pierre and Marie Curie on their honeymoon bicycle trip, 1895.
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French physicists Marie Curie (right), Pierre Curie (centre), and chemist Gustave...
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Marie Curie with her daughters, Ève (left) and Irène (right).
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French physicists Pierre and Marie Curie with their daughter Irène.
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Marie and Pierre Curie with their daughter Irène in the garden of their house in...
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Marie Curie driving a Renault automobile converted into a mobile radiological unit,...
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Marie Curie (far right) and her daughter Irène (second from right) posing with their...
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Marie Curie (left foreground) with U.S. Pres. Warren G. Harding, 1921.
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Marie Curie (right) and her daughter Irène, 1925.
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Marie Curie working in her laboratory at the University of Paris, 1925.
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Pierre and Marie Curie depicted on the obverse of a medal from the Unio Internationalis...
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Equipment used by Marie and Pierre Curie to investigate the deflection of beta rays...
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Depiction of the paths of alpha, beta, and gamma particles from a radium sample placed...
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Chemical elements discovered by Nobel Prize recipients.
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Maria Skłodowska (Marie Curie; standing) is shown with her sister, Bronislawa Skłodowska,...
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Pierre and Marie Curie pose with bicycles on their honeymoon in 1895.
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In 1914 Marie Curie drives a car converted into a mobile radiological unit used to...
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Marie (right) and Pierre Curie (center) are pictured with chemist Gustave Bémont.
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Marie Curie (right) and her daughter Irène,1925.
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