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Marie Curie

The French Academy of Sciences Failed, To Elect Her To Membership In The Academy

1911
Paris, France

In 1911 the French Academy of Sciences failed, by one or two votes, to elect her to membership in the Academy. Elected instead was Édouard Branly, an inventor who had helped Guglielmo Marconi develop the wireless telegraph.


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