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Women's History Month 2025 (Loudoun)

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Marie Curie

She pioneered research on radioactivity, becoming the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. She was the first person ever to win Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields—Physics and Chemistry. She is Marie Curie.

Learn more about Curie via the Biography (Gale in Context) database and the other NOVA Libraries resources below. 

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Marie Curie in her Paris laboratory. Photo via Encyclopædia Britannica

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