marie curie

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marie curie - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Marie Curie
      n 1: French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes;
           one (with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on
           radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and
           polonium (1867-1934) [syn: Curie, Marie Curie, Madame Curie
           , Marya Sklodowska]