10. Dec. 1903: Madame Curie was the first (of up to this day only 10) woman to win a scientific (physics, chemistry, medicine) Nobel Prize. Her honoured work (physics prize) was on radioactivity. 1911 she got a second Nobel prize, this time in chemistry. She is the only woman and one out of three humans who have won two science Nobel prizes and the only one at all to have won science Nobel prizes in two different fields.

(For trivia fans: Yes, there is a fourth double Nobel laureate, Linus Pauling, but only one of his two prizes was a science prize; yes, there is one triple Nobel laureate, the ICRC, but that's an organisation and not a single human)

Wolfgang