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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 was appointed to a professorship at the Sorbonne on May 13, 1906, following the death of her husband, Pierre Curie. By taking this position, she became the first woman to teach at the institution. She later became a titular professor in 1908.12