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Marie Curie and Irène only mother-daughter pair to win Nobel
short by Gaurav Shroff / on Tuesday, 7 November, 2017
Polish scientist Marie Curie, who was born on November 7, 1867, jointly won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband Pierre Curie before her solo Chemistry Nobel in 1911. Their daughter Irène jointly won the 1935 Chemistry Nobel with her husband Frédéric Joliot-Curie, making Marie and Irène the only mother-daughter pair to win the Nobel Prize.
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