Which Nobel Prize did Marie Curie win in 1903?

Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903.

Curie shared the 1903 Physics prize with her husband, Pierre Curie, and physicist Henri Becquerel. The award recognized their research into radiation phenomena. Becquerel had discovered spontaneous radioactivity in uranium, while Marie and Pierre Curie investigated the phenomenon and identified the radioactive elements polonium and radium. Marie Curie was the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize.

Curie later won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering the elements polonium and radium, isolating radium and studying its compounds. She therefore became the first person to win Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields. Her achievements are sometimes simplified into the claim that she won two prizes for the same work, but the awards recognized distinct contributions. Her daughter Irène Joliot-Curie later won the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, making the Curie family especially prominent in Nobel history.