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I'm sure you know, but she discovered two new radioactive elements and laid out the foundation for a lot of what we know today about radioactivity and atomic structure. Probably she have been a huge inspiration to women in science as well as she was the first ever woman to win the Nobel Prize and faces a lot of challenges as a woman doing science in the early 1900s.


Other people responded making my point, just a funny quote given her death is believed to be due to her research and improper safety protocols.




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