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Have any women won the Nobel Prize in Physics?

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Yes, women have won the Nobel Prize in Physics. Marie Curie was the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903, and she remains the only woman to have won the prize more than once. Other notable female Nobel laureates in Physics include Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1963), Donna Strickland (2018), and Jocelyn Bell Burnell (2019).
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