Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

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Marie Curie
Polish-born physicist and chemist who won Nobel Prizes in Physics (1903) and Chemistry (1911). She discovered radium and polonium and pioneered the study of radioactivity.
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