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Influential women in the history of medicine

Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

She was raised in a forward-thinking, socially active family. Curie earned a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903, and yet another in Chemistry in 1911, the first and only woman to have been honoured twice. Later, the method allowed scientists to prove that type-2 diabetes is caused by the body not being able to use insulin properly.

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