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and was divided up between Austria, Persia, and Czarist Russia

bulletThere are three main types of Radioactivity: alpha radiation, gamma radiation, and beta radiation
bulletRadium melts at 1292 degrees Fahrenheit
bulletRumor has it that after Marie Curie’s research that she glowed because of the time she spent with radium
bulletThe Curies won the 1903 Nobel Prize for physics and shared it with another physicist named Antoine Henri.
bulletMarie Curie was the first women to win that the Nobel Prize
bulletMarie Curie fainted from hunger because she was so wrapped up in her studies
bulletPoland was not independent for almost a century
bulletHer favorite game when she was very young was block wars (see early life)
bulletMarie Curie and her husband were cremated