CarveHerName on Nostr: #OnThisDay, 20 Apr 1902, Marie and Pierre Curie refine radium chloride. The discovery ...

#OnThisDay, 20 Apr 1902, Marie and Pierre Curie refine radium chloride. The discovery leads to Marie being the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.

The Academy originally planned to award only Pierre and Henri Becquerel. Pierre insisted that Marie should also be included.

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