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Marie Curie won two Nobel Prizes.

Nobody had ever done it before her. She won one for physics and one for chemistry — two whole different sciences. She discovered things glowing in the dark that no one knew existed, and she did it in a leaky shed because no real lab would give a woman the keys.

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What did she discover?

Radium and polonium. They're so radioactive that her notebooks from 1900 are still too dangerous to touch — they're kept in lead-lined boxes today.

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