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World exhibition Expo '92 in Sevilla, Spain. Famous Poles.
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Mikołaj Kopernik Fryderyk Chopin |
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Henryk Sienkiewicz Maria Skłodowska-Curie |
Mikołaj Kopernik (Copernicus, 1473-1543), astronomer, discovered that the sun is the center of our solar system.
Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849), composer.
Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916), writer.
Quo Vadis is the name of the epic novel, written by Henryk Sienkiewicz, for which he won the Nobel prize for literature in 1905.
Maria Skłodowska-Curie (1867-1934), chemist and physician, Nobel prize winner in 1903 and 1911.
88 is the atomic number of radium.
Rad is an abbreviation for radiology.
S2 = ?
226,025 is the atomic weight of Radium.
Ra is the symbol for radium in the periodic table of elements.
In 1903, together with Becquerel, Maria Skłodowska-Curie and her husband Pierre Curie were awarded the Nobel Prize for physics for their discovery of natural radioactivity. In 1911, Maria Skłodowska-Curie was honoured with a Nobel Prize for chemistry for isolating and determining the atomic weight of radium with the help of Andre Debierne.
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Mikołaj Kopernik (Copernicus)
Fryderyk Chopin
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Maria Skłodowska-Curie
Solar system
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Quo vadis
Radiology
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