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Who was the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize?

Retry Correct Incorrect Although her revolutionary studies into the nature of radiation would sadly claim her life after long-term exposure, Marie Curie’s work was so brilliant that she was not only the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in 1903, but the only woman so far to win two.

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Who was the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize?

• Mary Anning
• Marie Curie
• Alice Ball
• Rachel Louise Carson