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#OnThisDay in 1903, Marie Skłodowska Curie defended her doctoral thesis on radioactive substances at Université de la Sorbonne in Paris, becoming the first woman in France to receive a doctoral degree in physics.

The examination committee expressed the opinion that Curie's findings, including determining radium’s atomic weight, represented the greatest scientific contribution ever made in a doctoral thesis. via @NobelPrize

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43233

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