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Most Influential Woman in history - BBC

August 15 , 2018 2149 days 746 0
  • Nobel Prize-winning scientist Marie Curie was adjudged the most influential woman in history, through a poll conducted by BBC History Magazine.
  • Marie Curie was nominated by Patricia Fara, president of the British Society for the History of Science.
  • Marie Curie had won Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 and Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911.
  • Marie Curie is the,
    • First woman to win a Nobel Prize in physics
    • First female professor at the Sorbonne in France
    • First person to win a second Nobel Prize
    • Only person to have won Nobel Prizes in two sciences

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