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10 Tala Marie Curie
| Issuer | Central Bank of Samoa |
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| Year | 2009 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse lettering | SAMOA FA`AVAE I LE ATUA SAMOA $10 (Translation: God be the Foundation of Samoa) |
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| Reverse lettering | MARIE SKLODOWSKA-CURIE 7. OKTOBER 1867 - 4.JULI 1934 2009 |
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Issued as part of Samoa's long-running program of commemorative gold minims honoring international scientific figures, this piece marks the centenary of Marie Curie's 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry — her second Nobel, awarded just three years after she received the Physics prize in 1903, making her the first person to win in two separate sciences. The Stockholm committee's decision to award her at all in 1911 was contested; a faction of the Swedish Academy had urged her to decline the prize amid a tabloid scandal in Paris over her relationship with physicist Paul Langevin.