Special Women to Have Won the Nobel Prize with Their Remarkable Contributions

Marie Curie

Born Maria Salomea Skłodowska, Marie Curie holds two envious records: being the first woman to win the Nobel Prize and being the first person to win it twice. In 1903, together with her husband, Pierre Curie, they won the Nobel Prize for physics for their spontaneous radiation studies. The prize was co-shared with Antoine Henri Becquerel for his radioactivity discovery.

Marie’s second win came in 1911 in chemistry for her additional polonium and radium investigations, the latter proving crucial in later years. The Polish native, who became a naturalized Frenchwoman, spearheaded the use of radium to treat wounded soldiers in the First World War.

 

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