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Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win a Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields. (Credit: Getty Images)
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from: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230907-the-fear-of-a-nuclear-fire-that-would-consume-earth
Marie Curie's revelations about radioactivity in the early 1900s helped change the course of human history.
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Scientific instruments in the 1900's are as inscrutable as the scientific instruments now. Definitely not your basic chemistry set.
I don’t think that last statement is correct. IIRC, several people have subsequently gotten Nobels in multiple disciplines.
Yes, there have been. They won in the same fields twice, different fields twice, but looks like none except Marie Curie that won in two different scientific fields.
You’re exactly right.
Linus Pauling did win for Chemistry and his second was in Peace. All before he went nuts for vitamin C pseudoscience.
You are technically correct, the best kind of correct.
😉 Just following Wikipedia's statement.