Timeline Thursday 10 December 1903

Events on Thursday 10 December 1903 1

• 1903 Marie Curie awarded Nobel Prize in Physics First woman to receive a Nobel Prize, shared for research on radioactivity On 10 December 1903, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded jointly to Marie Curie, Pierre Curie, and Henri Becquerel for their work on radioactivity. Marie Curie became the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize. She would go on to win a second Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911.