Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Poland


Maria Skłodowska-Curie, Discoverer of the chemical elements Polonium and Radium, winner of the Nobel Prize 1903, 1911)

Nobel-winning scientist Marie Curie (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934)'s birthplace in Warsaw (the large picture) houses a small museum dedicated to her.  She remains the only women to win two Nobel Prizes and was the first women to do so.  She is also the only person to win Nobels in two scientific disciplines: Physics in 1903 and Chemistry in 1911)


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