Marie Curie is still the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences

She shared the 1903 Physics prize for discovering radioactivity, then won the 1911 Chemistry prize alone for isolating pure radium. Over a century later, no one else, man or woman, has won Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields.

— Susan Quinn, Marie Curie: A Life — Simon & Schuster, 1995
Go deeper: get the book →