How much do you know about the Nobel Prize medal? During his banquet speech, 1999 chemistry laureate Ahmed Zewail spoke about his Nobel Prize medal as well as the science and history depicted on it. Zewail was awarded the chemistry prize “for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy.” | Nobel Prize

Marie Curie (1867–1934) was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win two Nobel Prizes, and the only person to win in both Physics and Chemistry. She earned a doctorate in France and, with her husband Pierre Curie, discovered polonium and radium, naming polonium after Poland. She shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel and won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for isolating radium and polonium. During World War I, she developed mobile X‑ra