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Why was Marie Curie important?

Marie Curie’s contributions to physics were immense, not only in her own work, as indicated by her two Nobel Prizes (Physics, 1903; Chemistry, 1911), but also through her influence on subsequent generations of nuclear physicists and chemists. Her work paved the way for the discovery of the neutron and artificial radioactivity.