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Marie Curie was a pioneering physicist and chemist. She is renowned for her groundbreaking research on radioactivity, a term that she coined. Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and remains the only person to have won Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields: Physics in 1903 (shared with her husband Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel) and Chemistry in 1911. Curie was born Maria Salomea Skłodowska on November 7, 1867, in Warsaw, Poland. She moved to Paris in 1891 to continue her education at the Sorbonne, where she met Pierre Curie. Together, they discovered the elements polonium and radium. After Pierre’s tragic death in 1906, Marie continued their work, becoming the first female professor at the University of Paris. Her contributions extended beyond her discoveries; she developed mobile radiography units to provide X-ray services to field hospitals during World War I. Curie passed away on July 4, 1934, from aplastic anemia, likely caused by prolonged exposure to radiation.