Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
The first woman to win a Nobel Prize was a physicist and chemist, the Polish-French Marie Curie. Born in 1867, Marie was a pioneer researcher in the field of radioactivity, which won her her first Nobel Prize in 1903 for her research of radiation phenomena. She won her second Nobel Prize, in chemistry, for the discovery of two elements: polonium and radium. She, alongside her husband, did much research that led to many discoveries that helped in new cancer treatments through radiation.  She studied at the University of Paris and earned two degrees. She died on July 4, 1934. 