How did Marie Curie win two Nobel Prizes in two different sciences?
Two Prizes, One Question
How did Marie Curie win two Nobel Prizes in two different sciences?
Two Nobel Prizes. Two different sciences. One person. It sounds like a typo, but it isn't — Marie Curie really did it, and she's still the only person ever to win Nobels in two separate sciences. So how do you pull off a trick like that? You start by being curious about something invisible.
In the 1890s, a strange discovery was in the air. Certain rocks seemed to give off invisible rays all by themselves — no fire, no sunlight, no battery. Nobody knew where the energy came from. Most scientists shrugged and moved on. Marie did the opposite. She decided that the mystery was her whole job.
