Awarded the NobelPrize in Physics, "in recognition of the extraordinary services they (Curies) have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by ProfessorHenri Becquerel"
Awarded the NobelPrize in Chemistry, "in recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium.."
Awarded the NobelPrize in Chemistry, one of only two people who has been awarded a NobelPrize in two different fields, the other being Linus Pauling