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Nobel Prize

Poland · Science / Chemistry. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1911

Marie Sklodowska Curie10 December 1911

Stockholm · Science / Chemistry

Receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on radium and polonium, including the isolation and study of radium.

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Marie Sklodowska Curie

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