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Q100 (CDS-I/2007) Science & Technology › Basic Science (Physics, Chemistry, Biology) › Atomic and nuclear physics Answer Verified

In which categories did Marie Curie win her two different Nobel prizes

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Marie Curie is a pioneering scientist who achieved the unique distinction of being the first person to win two Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields. She was first awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903, alongside her husband Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel, for their groundbreaking research on radiation phenomena [t1][t4][t9]. Later, in 1911, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her discovery of the elements radium and polonium, as well as the isolation of radium [t1][t3][t7]. To this day, she remains the only individual to have received Nobel Prizes in two different science categories [t1][t6]. Her work fundamentally changed the understanding of radioactivity and its applications in medicine, such as the development of X-rays during World War I [t1][t8].

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  1. [1] https://www.newscientist.com/people/marie-curie/
  2. [2] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11390158/
  3. [3] https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/introducing/history/frieze/marie-sklodowska-curie
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