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What distinction does Marie Curie still hold among Nobel laureates?
Physics 1903 (shared) and Chemistry 1911 (alone). She refused to patent radium, drove X-ray cars at the WWI front, and died of the radiation she studied — her notebooks are still radioactive.
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Marie Curie Marie Curie (1867-1934) discovered polonium and radium, coined the word 'radioactivity', and remains the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two sciences. She refused to patent radium, drove X-ray cars to the WWI front, and died of the radiation she studied; her notebooks are still radioactive, and she was the first woman entombed in the Panthéon on her own merits.
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