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Born in Warsaw, Poland, on November 7, 1867, Marie Curie used to be forbidden to wait the male-handiest University of Warsaw, so she enrolled on the Sorbonne in Paris to review physics and mathematics. There she met a professor named Pierre Curie, and the 2 soon married, forming some of the famous scientific partnerships in history. Together they came upon two elements and won a Nobel Prize in 1903. (Later Marie won any other Nobel award for chemistry in 1911.) She died in Savoy, France, on July 4, 1934, a victim of a few years of exposure to toxic radiation.