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At the Sorbonne, Marie met Pierre Curie. He was a teacher in the School of Physics and Chemsitry. They were both interested in magnetism and started dating. That summer, Marie returned to Warsaw. When she was denied a job at Kraków University because she was a woman, Marie returned to Paris to be with Pierre. In July 1895, they got married and studied together in their laboratory. Irène, their first daughter, was born in 1897. In 1903, Marie and her husband were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. The Sorbonne made Pierre a professor and let him build his own laboratory. A year later in 1904, the Curies had their second daughter, Eve. On April 19, 1906, Pierre was run over by a horse-drawn vehicle. On May 13, the Sorbonne physics department gave Pierre’s job to Marie, along with full authority over the laboratory, making her the first female professor at Sorbonne.
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