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WCC:
Women Chemists Committee
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Woman
Chemist of the Quarter
Curie was born on
November 7 1867 and moved to Paris when she was 24 to study science and
become a naturalized French citizen. At the university, she met another
instructor to whom she would eventually marry named Pierre Curie. The
two worked together studying radioactive compounds and refining uranium
pitchblende ore. Besides radium, Marie Curie also discovered a new
substance polonium, which she named after her native homeland of Poland.
