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 ==== Polish-French physicist ====
-Maria Skłodowska-Curie was a Polish-French physicist. She was born in 1867 in Warsaw, Congress Poland, but in 1891 she moved to Paris, France to continue her studies. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize (Physics in 1903, shared with her partner and husband Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel, and Chemistry in 1911, and the only person that wins Nobel Prizes in two scientific fields. She was also the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris. Se received numerous other awards and honorary degrees. [([[https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1903/marie-curie/facts/|Nobel Prize]])]
+Maria Skłodowska-Curie was a Polish-French physicist. She was born in 1867 in Warsaw, Congress Poland, but in 1891 she moved to Paris, France to continue her studies. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize (physics in 1903, shared with her partner and husband Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel, and chemistry in 1911, making her the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields). She was also the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris. Se received numerous other awards and honorary degrees. [([[https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1903/marie-curie/facts/|Nobel Prize]])]
 ==== Nobel in Physics ====
-She was awarded Nobel Prize in Physics 1903 with Pierre Curie, for research on the radiation phenomena, discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel. Se coined the term radioactivity, describing the emission of ionizing radiation by some heavy elements. [([[https://www.notablebiographies.com/Co-Da/Curie-Marie.html|Notable Biographies]])]
+She was awarded Nobel Prize in Physics 1903 with Pierre Curie for their research on the radiation phenomena, discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel. She coined the term radioactivity, describing the emission of ionizing radiation by some heavy elements. [([[https://www.notablebiographies.com/Co-Da/Curie-Marie.html|Notable Biographies]])]
 ==== Nobel in Chemistry ====
-Marie Sklodowska was awarded the second Nobel Award for discovery and researching nature of two new elements - polonium (named after her native country, occupied by Russia at the time) and radium (named after radiation)[([[https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1911/marie-curie/facts/|Nobel Prize]])]
+Marie Sklodowska was awarded her second Nobel Prize for the discovery and researching the nature of two new elements: polonium (named after her native country, occupied by Russia at the time) and radium (named after radiation).[([[https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1911/marie-curie/facts/|Nobel Prize]])]
 ==== Nobel family ====
-Marie received Nobel Prize with her husband, Pierre. Their daughter, Irène Joliot-Curie, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935 shared with her husband, Frédéric Joliot-Curie. The second daughter, Ève Curie, was the only family member who didn't become a scientist and didn't win Nobel Prize, but her husband, Henry Richardson Labouisse, received Nobel Peace Prize in 1965 on behalf of UNICEF. Ève often joked: "There were five Nobel Prizes in my family, two for my mother, one for my father, one for sister and brother-in-law, and one for my husband. Only I was not successful". [([[https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/when-the-nobel-prize-is-a-family-affair-675246|NDTV]])]
+Marie received the Nobel Prize with her husband, Pierre. Their daughter, Irène Joliot-Curie, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935, which she shared with her husband, Frédéric Joliot-Curie. Their second daughter, Ève Curie, was the only family member who didn't become a scientist and didn't win a Nobel Prize, but her husband, Henry Richardson Labouisse, received a Nobel Peace Prize in 1965 on behalf of UNICEF. Ève often joked: "There were five Nobel Prizes in my family, two for my mother, one for my father, one for sister and brother-in-law, and one for my husband. Only I was not successful." [([[https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/when-the-nobel-prize-is-a-family-affair-675246|NDTV]])]
 ==== Radioactive Legacy ====

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