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- ↑ Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie (2012), "Marie Curie, Women and the History of Chemistry", Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Madame Marie Sklodowska Curie’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Springer, p. 111, ISBN 9789460917196
- ↑ Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie; Joy Dorothy Harvey (2000), "Blanquies, Lucie" , The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science, Routledge, p. 142, ISBN 9780415920384
- ↑ Chiu, M.-H.; Gilmer, P. J.; Treagust, D. F., eds. (2011). "Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Madame Marie Sklodowska Curie's Nobel Prize in Chemistry". SpringerLink. doi:10.1007/978-94-6091-719-6.
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