Nobel Prize: 1900s

• Prize amount in 1901: $17,451
• Value in 2017: $510,357.70

In 1903, scientist Marie Curie became the first female Nobel laureate ever — just one of her many firsts. She was also the first female professor at Paris-Sorbonne University, and the first Nobel Prize winner — and only person to this day — to win two Nobel Prizes in two different categories: physics in 1903 and chemistry in 1911.

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