Multiple choice general knowledge

Who is the first women to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics and Chemistry?

  1. Marie Curie

  2. Irene Joliot

  3. Elinor Ostrom

  4. Gerty Cori

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Explanation

Marie Curie was the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize and remains the only woman to win it in two different sciences - Physics in 1903 (shared with her husband Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel) and Chemistry in 1911. Her daughter Irene Joliot-Curie also won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935. Elinor Ostrom won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2009, and Gerty Cori won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1947.