On December 31, 1911, Marie Skłodowska-Curie got her second Nobel Prize. The Polish-French scientist was the first woman awarded with a Nobel Prize, the first to be given a second Nobel Prize and the only one to be honoured with a Nobel Prize in two different sciences (Physics and Chemistry).
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102nd anniversary of Marie Curie being awarded her second Nobel prize! This was in chemistry “in recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element.”
