Multiple choice

Who is the only woman to have received two Nobel prizes in different disciplines?

  1. Jane Addams

  2. Irene Curie

  3. Rosalyn Yalow

  4. Marie Curie

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Explanation

Marie Curie is the only woman to have received two Nobel Prizes in different scientific disciplines: Physics in 1903 (shared with her husband Pierre and Henri Becquerel) for work on radiation phenomena, and Chemistry in 1911 for her discovery of radium and polonium. Jane Addams won the Nobel Peace Prize, Irene Curie (Marie's daughter) won one Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and Rosalyn Yalow won the Nobel Prize in Medicine.