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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 42. Chapters: Marie Curie, Joseph Rotblat, Marek Gazdzicki, Jerzy Stanis aw Janicki, Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Jozef Bem, Isidor Isaac Rabi, Johann Rafelski, Stanis aw Komorowski, Konstanty Jodko-Narkiewicz, Marian Smoluchowski, Wlodzimierz Klonowski, Artur Ekert, Micha Heller, Kazimierz Fajans, Wojciech Rubinowicz, Andre Lichnerowicz, Christopher Jargocki, Witelo, Leopold Infeld, Zygmunt Florenty Wroblewski, Aleksander Zawadzki, Aleksander Jab o ski, Andrzej Trautman, Jan opusza ski, Henryk Niewodnicza ski, Jan S adkowski, Peter Bielkowicz, Ludwik Leibler, Witold Nazarewicz, Andrzej Kajetan Wroblewski, Smoluchowski coagulation equation, Edward W. Piotrowski, Wojciech H. Zurek, Janusz Andrzej Zakrzewski, Stefan Rozental, Andrzej So tan, Jan Rzewuski, Zygmunt Klemensiewicz, Jorge A. Swieca, Marek Huberath, Konstanty Zakrzewski, Joanna Hoffman, Mieczys aw Wolfke, August Witkowski, Wojciech wi tos awski, Szczepan Szczeniowski, Witold Milewski, W adys aw Natanson, Stanis aw Mrozowski, Alexander Weissberg-Cybulski, W odzimierz Trzebiatowski, Marian Danysz, Sylwester Porowski, Jerzy Pleba ski, Micha Gryzi ski, Czes aw Bia obrzeski, Jerzy Pniewski, Jan Kazimierz Danysz. Excerpt: Marie Sk odowska Curie (7 November 1867 - 4 July 1934) was a Polish-French physicist-chemist famous for her pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first person honored with two Nobel Prizes-in physics and chemistry. She was the first female professor at the University of Paris. She was the first woman to be entombed on her own merits (in 1995) in the Paris Pantheon. She was born Maria Salomea Sk odowska in Warsaw, in Russian Poland, and lived there to age twenty-four. In 1891 she followed her older sister Bronis awa to study in Paris, where she earned her higher degrees and conducted her subsequent...
