PARIS : Curies Join Elite
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President Francois Mitterrand will officiate Thursday at the reburial of physicists Pierre and Marie Curie in the Pantheon, the mausoleum of France’s most illustrious citizens, making Madame Curie the first woman to be buried there because of her own achievements.
Marie Curie, who died in 1937 at age 67, shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in physics with her husband for the study of radiation. She also won the 1911 Nobel Prize in chemistry, for discovering the elements radium and plutonium.
The only other woman interred in the Pantheon is the wife of chemist Marcellin Bertholot.
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