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Oslo used to be called Kristiania.

1906- Marie Curie gave the first lecture as the first female lecturer at the Sorbonne.

Marie only won jointly with her husband because he insisted she be given it equally to him. Without a man to speak for you, she would have also been forgotten.

We hold Marie Curie’s doctoral dissertation

The curies were finding new elements. All the radioactive ones

Marie Curie gave her prize money as a grant to a student to continue their education. This person would have never known.

Pierre Curie was 8 years older

Dmitri Mendeleev created the Periodic table.

Providing higher education to women was itself illicit under Russian rule.