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Discovering Radioactivity

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It All Starts with Marie
Radioactive Discoveries
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Frédéric and Irène Joliot-Curie
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Quick Fact:
Marie and Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on radioactivity.