marya sklodowska

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
Marya Sklodowska
    n 1: French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes;
         one (with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on
         radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and
         polonium (1867-1934) [syn: {Curie}, {Marie Curie}, {Madame
         Curie}, {Marya Sklodowska}]
    

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