The first person to win two Nobel Prizes was Marie Skłodowska Curie. She received her first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903, shared with her husband Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel, for their work on radioactivity. She won her second Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911, awarded solely to her for her discovery of the elements polonium and radium
. Marie Curie was also the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and remains the only person to have won Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields—Physics and Chemistry
