She was awarded two Nobel Prizes â one in physics which she won jointly with her husband and Henri Becquerel, and another in chemistry â and was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes. She is still one of only four people (along with Linus Pauling, John Bardeen and Frederick Sanger) to accomplish that feat.
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Freebase (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: Description. Description is one of four rhetorical modes, along with exposition, argumentation, and narration. Each of the rhetorical modes is present in a variety of forms and each has its own purpose and conventions. The act of description may be related to that of definition. Description is also the fiction-writing mode for transmitting a mental image of the particulars of a story. Chambers 20th Century Dictionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: Description