11/08/2011

Google Doodle Celebrates Marie Curie's 144th Birthday


In another one of its remarkable doodles, Google depicts the celebrated scientist sitting on her work bench.

Marie Curie, known for her pioneering work on radioactivity, was born on 7 November 1867 in Warsaw. Her husband Pierre, Curie herself and Henri Becquerel, the discoverer of radioactivity, were jointly awarded the Nobel prize for physics in 1903.

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