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from: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230907-the-fear-of-a-nuclear-fire-that-would-consume-earth

Marie Curie's revelations about radioactivity in the early 1900s helped change the course of human history.

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Scientific instruments in the 1900's are as inscrutable as the scientific instruments now. Definitely not your basic chemistry set.

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[–] Raisin8659@monyet.cc 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes, there have been. They won in the same fields twice, different fields twice, but looks like none except Marie Curie that won in two different scientific fields.

[–] ChrisLicht@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

You’re exactly right.

Linus Pauling did win for Chemistry and his second was in Peace. All before he went nuts for vitamin C pseudoscience.

[–] Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You are technically correct, the best kind of correct.

[–] Raisin8659@monyet.cc 1 points 1 year ago

😉 Just following Wikipedia's statement.