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Marie Magdalena Dufková was born in Prague-Zbraslav on 24 February 1955. Her paternal grandfather Hynek Svoboda was a prominent architect, her grandmother a dentist. Her mother Edita, née Št’astná, also came from a prominent business family of poultry business owners in Libuše. However, this was no longer the case by the time Marie was born; both families had lost their estates and had become undesirable. Marie felt this after graduation when she was not admitted to the Faculty of Science and had to choose a technical field, which was not in demand as much. She studied nuclear physics at the CTU and eventually worked in the field all her life, in particular nuclear energy education. She became the editor-in-chief of the educational magazine Třípól (Tripole) in the 1980s, which she still publishes online. She has received numerous awards for science education and popularisation such as the European Nuclear Society Award, the Physics Society Award and others. She used her motion talents in dancesport, which she has pursued all her life. In 2024 she lived in Prague-Zbraslav.
