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What Else Happened in 1903?
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Marie Curie is the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize, sharing the 1903 award in physics with her husband and Henri Becquerel, for the discovery of radioactivity.
Dutch physiologist Willem Einthoven invents the first practical device for recording heart activity, for which he would receive the Nobel Prize in 1924.
General Electric builds an all-electric House at the GE Realty Plot in Schenectady, N.Y.
Michael J. Owens of Toledo, Ohio, introduces the automatic bottle-blowing machine.
