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Marie Curie
Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only woman to win the award in two different fields (Physics, 1903; Chemistry, 1911).
Marie Curie died on July 4, 1934, from aplastic anemia. This condition, in which the bone marrow fails to produce sufficient blood cells, was caused by her long-term exposure to radiation during her pioneering scientific research and her work with mobile X-ray units throughout World War I.123
While some sources, including biographical accounts by her daughter Ève Curie, have historically referenced leukemia in relation to her death, the clinical cause is identified as aplastic anemia resulting from radiation damage.145