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The love affair that scandalised the Nobel committee

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The Polish scientist Marie Curie is renowned for her pioneering work in the field of radioactivity. But when it came to collecting her unprecedented second Nobel Prize in 1911, the uproar over her relationship with a married man almost overshadowed her achievements. Marie Curie鈥檚 biographer Susan Quinn explains鈥� Photo: Marie Curie (Hulton Archive/ Getty Images)

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