In 1891, aged 24, she followed her elder sister Bronisława to study in Paris, where she earned her higher degrees and conducted her subsequent scientific work. She studied at Warsaw's clandestine Flying University and began her practical scientific training in Warsaw. She was born in Warsaw, in what was then the Kingdom of Poland, part of the Russian Empire. She was, in 1906, the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris. Her husband, Pierre Curie, was a co-winner of her first Nobel Prize, making them the first-ever married couple to win the Nobel Prize and launching the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win a Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields. Marie Salomea Skłodowska–Curie ( / ˈ k j ʊər i/ KURE-ee, French pronunciation: , Polish pronunciation: born Maria Salomea Skłodowska, Polish: 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.
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