Question

Madam Curie was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics. She got a second Nobel prize of Chemistry in $1911$ for the discovery of:

• A. calcium, a nutrient
• B. radium, a radioactive element
• C. acids in bitter fruit
• D. the atom

Answer 1

Answer: (B)

radium, a radioactive element

Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911, "in recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element."