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Marie Curie shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics and later received the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Nobel Prize records describe her as the first person ever awarded two Nobel Prizes.

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Marie Curie won Nobel Prizes in two sciences — Physics (1903) and Chemistry (1911) — the first person ever to do so, and still one of very few.

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Marie Curie, 1903 Nobel Fizik Ödülü'nü paylaştı ve daha sonra 1911 Nobel Kimya Ödülü'nü aldı. Nobel kayıtları onu iki Nobel Ödülü alan ilk kişi olarak tanımlar.
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Marie Curie, iki bilimde Nobel Ödülü kazandı — Fizik (1903) ve Kimya (1911) — bunu başaran ilk kişi ve hâlâ çok az sayıdaki kişiden biri.

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