Newsmakers of the 20^th Century

1900-1909

• Monkey Power
• Empire Builder
• Marathon Fraud
• Magic Bullet
• Empress of India
• The First Scout
• Ford Makes the Car Affordable!
• Historic Flight
• Ahead of his Times
• First woman to Get the Nobel Prize

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First woman to Get the Nobel Prize

Marie Curie became the first woman Nobel laureate when she, her husband and a colleague were jointly awarded the prize for physics in 1903 for their work on radioactivity.
A few years later she won the Nobel prize for chemistry too, for her discovery of two elements, polonium (named after her native Poland) and radium, and for her work in isolating radium and studying its chemical properties. The unit of measurement of radioactivity, curie, is named after her.

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Last updated on :7/1/2003