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Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in Physics?

on Nov 28, 2024

Published in Science Trivia

Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Dorothy Crowfoot-Hodgkin
Maria Sklodowska-Curie
Irene Joliot-Curie

Maria Sklodowska-Curie. With a Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903 and one for Chemistry in 1911, Marie Curie was the first Laureate honored in two different sciences.

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