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SSC CHSL 2019 PYQ — Question 41

SSC CHSL - 9th July 2019 - Shift 1 • General Awareness • Q41

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Who was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903?

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Correct answer: A

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The correct answer is option 1 i.e. Marie Curie.

Who was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903?

Marie Curie

Marie Curie:
  • Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win two Nobel Prizes, and the only woman to win in two fields.
  • Awards that she received include Nobel Prize in Physics (1903, with her husband Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel) and the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Nobel Prize:
  • The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed in several categories by Swedish and Norwegian institutions in recognition of academic, cultural, or scientific advances.
  • The will of the Swedish chemist, engineer and industrialist Alfred Nobel established the five Nobel Prizes in 1895.