Who Was Marie Curie?
6. Nobel Prize
Marie Curie was the first woman ever to be awarded the Nobel Prize. This was quite a development at the time because attitudes toward women were very different back then. Even though the award was shared jointly with her husband, there was still resistance to her being named on the award.
The committee eventually agreed that Marie’s work merited the prize. Not only was Marie the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize, but she won it a second time. This made her the first person ever, of any sex, to be awarded the prize more than once and in different fields.
