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How did Pierre Curie die in 1906?

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Marie Curie Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only woman to win the award in two different fields (Physics, 1903; Chemistry, 1911).

Pierre Curie died on April 19, 1906, after being run over by a dray (a heavy, low-sided cart) on the rue Dauphine in Paris. He died instantly from the accident.1