Who, in 1903, was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in 1903. She shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband, Pierre Curie, and another physicist, Henri Becquerel, for their pioneering work 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.