The Curie Family

The Curie Family

The Curie family was one of the most educated and famous families in history, consisting of many distinguished scientists. Marie Curie, born in 1867, was a Polish chemist and physicist and she is the only person in history to have won two Nobel prizes in two different disciplines. Marie Curie was the first female professor at the University of Paris now know as  ‘Paris Six’ or ‘Marie Curie University’. She is best known for her work on radiation and she actually died of exposure to radiation in 1934. Marie’s husband, Pierre Curie was an accomplished French physicist, and he too won the Nobel Prize.  Irene Curie, was the daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie, and she was also a Nobel Laureate in Physics. She won the Nobel Prize for discovering that an element could be produced in a laboratory. Irene’s Husband, Frederic Joliot-Curie was also a French physicist and a Nobel Prize winner. Pierre Curie’s brother was also a well known physicist. The second daughter of Marie Curie and Pierre Curie, Eve Curie was a famous French American Journalist and writer. She was a war correspondent and worked for UNICEF.