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)(ychef.files.bbci.co.uk)

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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.

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1 year ago

Could she be the only Nobel prize winner whose children went on to win a Nobel prize too?

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1 year ago

I think there have been a few more. William Henry Bragg & his son Lawrence Bragg. Niels Bohr & his son Aage Bohr. And more…

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