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Events on Sunday 10 December 1911 1
1911Marie Curie Wins Second Nobel PrizeChemistry prize honors the discovery of radium and poloniumMarie Curie was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on 10 December 1911 for her discovery of the elements radium and polonium and her work isolating radium. She remains the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences. The award came amid a public scandal in the French press over her personal life.