Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
The first woman to win a Nobel Prize was Marie Curie in 1903. She won the Nobel Prize in Physics, sharing it with her husband Pierre Curie and Antoine Henri Becquerel, for their groundbreaking research on radioactivity. Marie Curie went on to win a second Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911 for her discovery of the elements radium and polonium. She remains the only woman to have won two Nobel Prizes in different fields of science.