How Did Marie Curie Contribute To History

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Marie Curie was such an intelligent woman who was able to make a huge contribution to history as she discovered things nobody even knew existed. Curie made a contribution to history to the extent where she died for the things she loved and not only that saved all of human kind by providing the race with her discovery of radiation and her invention of an x-ray machine. They x-ray machine was so important that it was even used in World War 1 to x-ray the soldiers in the army to identify what was wrong with them. Not once but twice she won Nobel Prizes for her efforts and became the first woman to do so. She also made history whilst working with fellow scientist Albert Einstein and Max Planck and helped make ground-breaking discoveries within

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