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Nobel Laureates - Physics

Women who have won the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Marie Curie

A profile of Marie Curie, one of the most important and well-known woman scientists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She played a key role in the discovery of radioactivity and its properties.

Maria Goeppert-Mayer

A mathematician and physicist, Maria Goeppert Mayer was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963 for her work on the nuclear shell structure.

1903: Marie Sklodowska Curie

With husband Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel, honored for research in "radiation phenomena."

1963: Maria Goeppert-Mayer

American honored with others for work with nuclear shell structure.

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