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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 successfully isolated radium in its pure metallic state in 1910.1
While she and her husband, Pierre Curie, discovered the element in 1898, the subsequent process of isolating it in a metallic form was a significant scientific challenge that she achieved with the assistance of the chemist André-Louis Debierne. This accomplishment was later recognized when she was awarded the 1911 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.21