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@Biography · 21 Jul 2026, 5:43 pm

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). Born November 7, 1867, Warsaw, Congress Kingdom of Poland, Russian Empire—died July 4, 1934, near Sallanches, France) was a Polish-born French physicist, famous for her work on radioactivity and twice a winner of the Nobel Prize. With Henri Becquerel and her husband, Pierre Curie, she was awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize for Physics.