NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS

 “The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.”               Rosalyn S. Yalow

 

MARIE CURIE is considered the most famous of all women scientists. She was the only person ever to win two Nobel Prizes (Physics, 1903; and Chemistry, 1911).  By the time she was 16, Marie had already won a gold medal at the Russian lycee in Poland upon the completion of her secondary education. In 1891, almost penniless, she began her education at the Sorbonne in Paris. In 1903, her discovery of radioactivity earned her the Nobel Prize in physics. In 1911, she won it for chemistry.

 

IRENE CURIE was the daughter of Marie Curie. She furthered her mother's work in radioactivity and won the Nobel Prize (Chemistry, 1935) for discovering that radioactivity could be artificially produced.

QUIZ: Who was the first woman since Marie to win an unshared Nobel Prize for chemistry (1964)?

 

ANSWER:  DOROTHY CROWFOOT HODGKIN won the Nobel Prize in 1964 for her enormous contributions to disease control by determining the structures of penicillin and insulin. 

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