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Madame Curie
     n : 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}, {Marya
         Sklodowska}]