The 15 Coolest Female Firsts in History

First female Nobel Prize winner

In 1903, Marie Curie, a physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity, was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize; the first person and only woman to win the Nobel Prize twice; and the only person to win the Nobel Prize in two different scientific fields, physics in 1903 and chemistry in 1911.

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