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OCR: PIERRE CURIE (1859. 1906) ORN IN PARIS, France Pierre Curie became famous for his work on radioactivity and magnetism. From an early age he had great ability in mathematics This led ns graduating from the University ofParis at just 18 His marriage to Polish immigrant Manya Sklodowska was the beginning ofa world -famous partnership Together they isolated two new radioactive elements, polonium and radium. and shared Nobel Prize for physics in 1903 for their discovery of radioactivity Pierre also worked on the properties of radioactive elements, identifying the existence of positive, negative, and neutral particles within an atom LFE ALSO STORY partner ship radioac tive