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Who is responsible for even our basic understanding of radiation?
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According to the Smithsonian Magazine, Marie Curie’s discovery of radium, polonium, and the very concept of radioactivity were groundbreaking enough to net her the first Nobel Prize ever awarded to a woman in 1903. But that doesn’t do her brilliance justice as much as the fact that in 1911, she would win her second Nobel Prize and become the first person in history to win more than one.
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Who is responsible for even our basic understanding of radiation?
- Mary Anning
- Marie Curie
- Elizabeth Blackwell
- Caroline Herschel
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