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During World War I, Marie Curie helped organise mobile X-ray units. Her science moved from the laboratory into emergency medicine.

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During the First World War Marie Curie built mobile X-ray units, driving them to the front herself so surgeons could find bullets and shrapnel — her science put directly to saving lives.

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Birinci Dünya Savaşı sırasında Marie Curie, seyyar röntgen üniteleri kurdu; bilimi laboratuvardan cephe tıbbına taşıdı.
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Birinci Dünya Savaşı sırasında Marie Curie, seyyar röntgen birimleri kurdu ve cerrahların kurşun ve şarapnel bulabilmesi için onları cepheye kendisi sürdü — bilimini doğrudan hayat kurtarmaya adadı.

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