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Why is Marie Curie the only woman to have won Nobel Prizes in two different fields?
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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 is the only woman to have won Nobel Prizes in two different fields because of her groundbreaking, independent contributions to both physics and chemistry.12
She was awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize for Physics alongside her husband, Pierre Curie, and Henri Becquerel for their joint research on the phenomenon of radioactivity. Later, she was the sole recipient of the 1911 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, which she received for her work in isolating pure radium and her discovery of the elements polonium and radium.12