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Organized mobile X-ray teams during World War I.
She helped bring radiology equipment and training closer to wounded soldiers.
GOTDONE ARCHIVE · 1867-1934
4 public itemsMarie Curie
Physicist and chemist
PHOTO: Henri Manuel / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain ↗Turned the study of radioactivity into discoveries, institutions, and practical medical work.
What Marie got done.
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Became the first person awarded two Nobel Prizes.
Her Chemistry Prize recognized the discovery of radium and polonium, the isolation of radium, and its study.
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Shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for research on radiation.
Her work with Pierre Curie advanced the study of the radiation phenomena discovered by Henri Becquerel.
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Discovered polonium and radium with Pierre Curie.
Their investigation of pitchblende revealed two previously unknown, highly radioactive elements.