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Who shared the 1903 Nobel Prize for Physics with Marie Curie?
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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 shared the 1903 Nobel Prize for Physics with two other scientists:
- Pierre Curie, her husband.12
- Henri Becquerel, who discovered the phenomenon of radioactivity.12
The trio was awarded the prize for their collective research into the radiation phenomena discovered by Becquerel.12