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FIGURE 2 . Marie Curie (1867-1934). Nobel Portrait, c. 1930. Source : Photograph by General-
stabens Litografiska Anstalt, courtesy AIP Emilio Segre Visual Archives.
In1903,Marie Curie, her husband, and Becquerel each received the Nobel Prize
in Physics for these discoveries. In 1911, she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry,
making her the only person to win the prize in two different sciences.
Having no idea of the dangers of radiation, Marie Curie conducted her work
without the safety measures that we take for granted today. This was a time when
workers would lick the tip of a paint brush, dip it into a pot containing radium, and
use it to coat the hands on a watch so that they would glow in the dark. Then they
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