Marie was buried in a lead coffin because her body is radioactive.
True
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Marie Curie’s documents are radioactive.
True
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Marie was born in Scotland.
False
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Marie’s first university was on a boat in the sea.
False
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In Paris, Marie got two degrees, one in Physics and one in Biology.
False
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When Marie was a student, she survived on ramen and tea.
False
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Marie did much of her research with her husband, Pierre.
True
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In 1890, Henri Becquerel discovered that uranium emitted a mysterious X-ray-like radiation that could interact with photographic film.
False
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Marie’s research helped to disprove the idea that atoms cannot be divided.
True
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In 1898, the Curie’s reported two new elements, polonium and radium.
True
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Both of the Curies and Becquerel shared the 1903 Nobel Prize, making Marie Curie the second female Nobel Laureate.
False
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Pierre Curie died when a car hit him on a busy road.
False
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When war broke out in 1914, Dr. Curie and her daughter Irène helped to equip vans with X-ray technology for medical use, and she herself drove one of the vans.
True
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Curie died in 1915 of a bone marrow disease, which many today think was caused by her radiation exposure.
