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Pawel Glogowski

New euro banknotes spark Franco-Polish dispute over Marie Curie's name

A new euro banknote design has reignited a long-running controversy between France and Poland over the legacy of the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Marie Curie (née Skłodowska).

Born in Warsaw in 1867, Skłodowska-Curie later moved to France, where she became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, when she was honoured with the much-coveted award in 1903 for physics with her husband Pierre.

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