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    Marie Skłodowska-Curie was a pioneering female scientist who won two Nobel Prizes, one in Physics and one in Chemistry. She was born in Poland during Russian occupation and faced barriers to higher education as a woman. She overcame adversity through perseverance and self-confidence to make groundbreaking discoveries in radioactivity and develop medical uses of radiation. During World War I, she created mobile radiology units and drove one herself. She proved that willpower can triumph over obstacles and remains a symbol of courage and persistence in science.

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    Marie Skłodowska-Curie was a pioneering female scientist who won two Nobel Prizes, one in Physics and one in Chemistry. She was born in Poland during Russian occupation and faced barriers to higher education as a woman. She overcame adversity through perseverance and self-confidence to make groundbreaking discoveries in radioactivity and develop medical uses of radiation. During World War I, she created mobile radiology units and drove one herself. She proved that willpower can triumph over obstacles and remains a symbol of courage and persistence in science.

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    Marie Skłodowska-Curie was a pioneering female scientist who won two Nobel Prizes, one in Physics and one in Chemistry. She was born in Poland during Russian occupation and faced barriers to higher education as a woman. She overcame adversity through perseverance and self-confidence to make groundbreaking discoveries in radioactivity and develop medical uses of radiation. During World War I, she created mobile radiology units and drove one herself. She proved that willpower can triumph over obstacles and remains a symbol of courage and persistence in science.

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    MARIA SKLODOWSKA-CURIE -

    THE TRIUMPH OF WILLPOWER

    An accomplished scientist, a double Noble prize winner, a mother of two wonderful daughters and a

    person with a rather unconventional approach to life, Marie Skłodowska-Curie remains the symbol

    of persistance and courage.

    Born in Warsaw, in what was then the Kingdom of Poland incorporated into the Russian

    Empire as the result of the Third Partition of Poland. She studied at Warsaw's clandestine Floating

    University asthe higher education opportunities for women that existed in the Russian Empire were

    severely limited. Having come from a family of modest income, she chose to become a private tutor

    and dedicated some years of her life to help her sister, Bronisława study in Paris. She joined her

    later and pursued her career as a mathematician, physicist and chemist.

    In 1903, she shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband Pierre Curie and another

    physicist, Henri Becquerel. She won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Her achievements include

    the development of the theory of radioactivity, techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes, and the

    discovery of two elements, polonium and radium. Under her supervision, the world's first studies

    were conducted into the treatment of cancer, using radioactive isotopes. During World War I, she

    established the first mobile military field radiological centres, one of which she drove herself.

    She was the first woman to receive the Nobel prize, the only person to receive it in two

    different fields of science and one of the first women ever to have a driving licence. She was the

    living proof of the triumph of willpower over adversity and as she put it, "Life is not easy for any of

    us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must

    believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."1

    1 https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/mariecurie126077.html

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