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Marie Curie’s lab coat was considered a fashion icon. STEM, but make it runway.

✗ FAKE

Marie Curie is famous for research on radioactivity and for two Nobel Prizes, in 1903 and 1911. Her lab coat was not known as a fashion icon.

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