Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and also the only person to win in two different scientific fields?
Category: Knowledge · Difficulty: expert
Hint: She conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.
Answer
Marie Curie
Explanation
Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only one to win in both Physics and Chemistry.
This is a expert knowledge riddle — one of the harder riddles here. The answer is Marie Curie.
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