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Nobel Laureates - Chemistry

Women scientists who have won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
1911: Marie Curie
Honored for work with radium and polonium.
1935: Iréne Joliot-Curie
With her husband, this daughter of Nobel Prize laureates Pierre and Marie Curie was awarded the prize for their work in synthesizing radioactive elements. She was also mentioned in the 1943 and 1951 Prize presentations.
1964: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
A British chemist honored for her work using x-ray procedures to study natural substances.

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