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Marie Curie

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First person to win two Nobel Prizes, and still the only one in two different sciences

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Marie Curie shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics for the study of radioactivity, then won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on her own for discovering polonium and radium. Others have won two Nobels, but none has won in two different scientific fields.

Linus Pauling won in Chemistry and Peace, and Frederick Sanger and John Bardeen each won twice in the same science.

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