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Please change the article name to Maria Skłodowska-Curie

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Which is her real legal name. There is no reason to omit half of her legal name. 2A02:A311:4339:7880:5CF:EF50:5D:A311 (talk) 15:08, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@2A02:A311:4339:7880:5CF:EF50:5D:A311
There is: WP:COMMONNAME Wikifan153 (talk) 18:05, 4 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Then why not leave it as Maria Skłodowska? 109.231.11.167 (talk) 12:36, 5 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I think it should be Marie Skłodowska-Curie. This choice would satisfy everyone, without omitting an important part of her identity, one that some people are obsessed to hide under many excuses (hard to pronounce, not necessary, was french etc.) Awhileo (talk) 13:26, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Birth date of her husband is jumbled " 2600:1700:EB40:32B0:AA2B:72B:3A80:1874 (talk) 02:12, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If you're referring to the "m. 1895" in the infobox, that's the year they were married, not Pierre's birthyear. Mindmatrix 12:21, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 11 July 2024

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she was Polish, don’t just type her birth last name, when she married Pierre Curie she insisted on being called Maria SKŁODOWSKA-Curie, please fix it or i’ll do it myself Nikolairaskolnikov (talk) 12:24, 11 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. PianoDan (talk) 18:17, 11 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

To be clear, this has also been discussed repeatedly, and would require a consensus developed here AS WELL AS reliable sources. PianoDan (talk) 18:18, 11 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Marie Curie

Marie Curie (1867–1934) was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. Born in Warsaw, she studied in Poland until she was 24, when she moved to Paris to earn her higher degrees. In 1895, she married French physicist Pierre Curie, and in 1903 she shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Pierre and with physicist Henri Becquerel for their pioneering work developing the theory of "radioactivity" - a term she coined. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. She won a second Nobel Prize in 1911, the first person to do so, for her discovery of the elements polonium and radium. Under her direction, the world's first studies were conducted into the treatment of neoplasms by the use of radioactive isotopes and during World War I, she developed mobile radiography units to provide X-ray services to field hospitals. She founded the Curie Institute in Paris in 1920, and the Curie Institute in Warsaw in 1932. This photograph of Curie was taken in around 1920 by French photographer Henri Manuel.

Photograph credit: Henri Manuel; restored by FMSky and Bammesk