Honours were showered upon her, such as the Royal Society’s Davy Medal, later in her career. She was also the first woman to be granted a degree in physics and the first to be appointed to a professorship at the Sorbonne in Paris. Marie was the only woman ever to be awarded two Nobel prizes, the physics prize in 1903 for the discovery of radioactivity and the chemistry prize in 1911 for her isolation of the elements polonium and radium. The accomplishments of Marie Curie were so extraordinary that it is hardly surprising she became a legend in her own lifetime. Obsessive genius: the inner world of Marie Curie
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