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What was Curie's birth name?
Maria Sklodowska
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What year did she complete her first degree?
1893
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Who was the Nobel Prize named after?
Alfred Nobel
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When did Marie and Pierre marry?
July 26, 1895
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At what age did she die?
66
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Where was she born?
Warsaw, Poland
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Who did she live with while in Paris?
Her sister and her sisters husband
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What year did Marie Curie win the Nobel Prize in physics?
1903
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In what year did Marie Curie have her first daughter, Irene?
1897
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What were Little Curies?
vans that transported x-ray equipment
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What were the names of all four of Marie's siblings?
Zosia, Jozef, Bronya, and Hela
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In what year did Marie Curie travel to Paris for school?
1891
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When was the Nobel Prize created?
1895
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Which two people did she share her Nobel Prize with
Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel
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Which one of her inventions was used to diagnose soldiers around the world?
the x-ray
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What two subjects did her father teach?
math and physics
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What were the jobs Curie had in the 5 years she supported her sister?
Tutor and Governess
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What discoveries led Curie to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry?
The discoveries of radium and polonium
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What did Marie Curie do after Pierre's death?
she took over his teaching job
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Because she was very poor while studying at Sorbonne, what were the two things she ate?
Buttered bread and tea
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What disease did Curie's mother die from?
tuberculosis
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What is the name of the underground, informal university classes that Curie attended after secondary school?
floating university
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Who are the two people that helped with the creation of the prize?
Ragnar Sohlman and Rudolf Lilijequist
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What disease did she get that led to her death?
Leukemia
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Name five different awards Marie Curie won in her lifetime
Possible answers: Davy Medal, Matteucci Medal, Elliott Cresson Medal, Franklin Medal of the American Philosophical Society, John Scott Medal, Willard Gibbs Award, Nobel Prize for Physics, Nobel Prize for Chemistry