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Pierre Curie and Marie Curie 

Sincerely, Nobel laureate family

Marie Curie was the first woman in the world to win the Nobel Prize in both physics and chemistry  (physics in 1903 and chemistry in 1911).

Also she was the first female professor at the University of Paris . It was here that she met Pierre Curie , who later became her husband , and together they discovered radiation . For which the Nobel Committee nominated her husband for the Nobel Prize . Here, being a woman , the Nobel Committee did not want to nominate Mary for the Nobel , but due to Pierre's objection , the committee had to give the Nobel to Mary .

Maryam ( Marie Curie ) had two daughters.

Irene in 1897 and Eve in 1904.......A year and a half after Eve's birth (in 1906) Marie's husband Pierre died in an accident.
We can't imagine how difficult it must have been for Marie to raise two daughters while busy all day in the lab. .Mary disliked the type of school education available for girls in Paris at the time. She taught her daughters at home.


Marie Curie won a second Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911 for the discovery of radium and polonium , which are used today to treat cancer.

Continued exposure to radium caused Mary's health to deteriorate and she died in 1934 at the age of 66.

She was not only a successful scientist but also a devoted wife, a responsible mother and a humanitarian. The radioactive romance that began with Pierre Curie's companionship ended with Marie Curie's death.

America honored Curie and announced that she would donate one gram of radium found in her country. Mary said that the radium should be given to her organization, not to her, so that it would not be in her family's possession after her death.

Both daughters, who grew up in their mother's shadow, have also achieved remarkable success. Eldest daughter Irene received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1935, while younger daughter Eve, who had been interested in art and writing since childhood , was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for war journalism.

She later became the 'First Lady' of UNICEF . UNICEF (Hoye Eve's husband) won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1965.

Thus there is only one family in the world in which (all?*) members have won the Nobel Prize.

Father and two daughters... such a talented family is second to none in the history of the world.

It is thus the only family in the world to have won five Nobel Prizes.
Imbue your daughter/son with the light of science.