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OCR: CHRONOLOGY NOVEMBER 1867 Bom Manya Sklodowska, in Warsaw, Poland. SEPTEMBER 1891 Moves to Paris and enters the Sorbonne with a scholarship. JULY 1894 Gains high honors in physics and mathematics. JULY 25, 1895 Marries Pierre Curie. JULY 1898 Discovers the element polonium. DECEMBER 10, 1903 Wins a Nobel prize in physics (with Pierre Curie), sharing the award with Henri Becquerel. MAY 1906 Takes Pierre's place as a professor at the Sorbonne, after his death in a traffic accident. DECEMBER 10, 1911 Wins a Nobel prize in chemistry. 1918-1934 Director of the research department, Radium Institute in Paris. JULY 4, 1934 Dies in Haute Savoie, France.