Pierre Curie, wife, daughter, son-in-law all won Nobel Prize

Born on May 15, 1859, French scientist Pierre Curie won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife Marie Curie for isolating the previously unknown radioactive elements radium and polonium. The Curies had two daughters, Irène and Ève. Irène continued the family tradition of scientific research and received the 1935 Chemistry Nobel with her husband Frederic Joliot.