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Marie Curie
Poland
Marie Curie became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in 1903, taking the Physics prize alongside Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel. In 1911 she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her discovery of radium and polonium. She was the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences. Her pioneering research on radioactivity laid the foundation for modern nuclear physics and cancer treatment.
