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Marie Curie Vs Rachel Carson
This girl was a scientist and an author she wrote books. She earned a master's degree. In 1941 she finally wrote her first book. People would meet Rachel Carson and their face would fall off of how pretty Rachel Carson was. At the age of 48 she adopted a kid it was a boy about 11 or 10 years of age. Rachel Carson is working and finishing a book that she wrote called Silent Spring. Then Rachel Carson quit her job and just studied science and sea creatures. There was a cure to save this bug disease it was called D.D.T. Then that same bug disease went to the war and that is like how the other people won their wars.

Rachel Carson got two tumors on one of her right side of her chest and the other tumor was on her left side of her chest. She said that she was like the sickest she had ever been in her life. She built two houses one house was built in Maryland and the other house was built in Maine. She was also never married in her life. So they sprayed this like pesticide stuff to cure their bug disease.
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Marie Curie's parents both were teachers Rachel's parents did not teach. Marie Curie was married and Rachel did not get married at all. Marie curie made a x-ray machine and Rachel didn’t create a X-ray machine at all.
Some of the things that are the same about each other. Are That Marie Curie and Rachel Carson were both great scientist. They were both women. They both made important discoveries in their scientific field. They both died from very serious

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