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Marie Salomea Sklodowska was born in Warsaw.
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She won a gold medal as top student in her class.
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She started working as a teacher.
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She went to Paris to study science and Maths at the Sorbonne.
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She met her husband, Pierre Curie.
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Marie and Pierre got married. They had two children.
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Marie and Pierre discovered radium and polonium.
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Marie became the first woman in France to receive a doctoral degree.Marie and Pierre Curie won a Nobel Prize. Marie was the first woman to win.
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Pierre died in a traffic accident. Marie became the first female professor at the University of Paris.
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Marie won another Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
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World War I started. Marie worked for the Red Cross.
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Marie Curie died in Sallanches, France.
