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Photo
Marie Curie (1900) (cropped)
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Public domain
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Wikimedia Commons
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Photo credit

Photo
Marie Curie c. 1898 (cropped)
Licence
Public domain
Source
Wikimedia Commons
Changes
Resized

居里夫人

Jūlǐ fūren
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Marie Curie (physicist)

About Marie Curie

1867–1934 · 科学家 scientist

Polish-born scientist in Paris who discovered polonium and radium and was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes. In China she is called 'Madame Curie' and held up to schoolchildren as a model of hard work.

Also called  玛丽·居里

Examples

HSK 7-9
居里夫人对科学的贡献是巨大的。
Jūlǐ fūrén duì kēxué de gòngxiàn shì jùdà de.
Marie Curie's contribution to science is enormous.

Tips

memory
Her two elements are 钋, polonium, named for her native Poland, and 镭, radium. Both carry the metal radical 钅; in 镭 the other half, 雷 'thunder', gives the sound.

Stroke Order

居 jū
里 lǐ
夫 fū
人 rén