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Marie Curie is the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences — Physics and Chemistry.

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Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 and in Chemistry in 1911 — still the only person honoured in two different sciences. Discovery ran in the family: her daughter Irène Joliot-Curie later won a Nobel of her own for creating artificial radioactivity.

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Marie Curie, iki farklı bilim dalında — Fizik ve Kimya — Nobel Ödülü kazanan tek kişidir.

Marie Curie 1903'te Fizik, 1911'de Kimya Nobel'ini kazandı — hâlâ iki farklı bilimde onurlandırılan tek kişidir. Keşif ailede vardı: Kızı Irène Joliot-Curie de sonradan yapay radyoaktiviteyi bularak kendi Nobel'ini aldı.

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