3 Nobel Prize winners in the one family. Marie Curie (physics & chemistry). Pierre Curie (physics) & their daughter Irene-Joliot Curie (chemistry) making them the most Nobel laureates family to date.
Both of Irene's children are still alive and they were both highly respected scientists:
Hélène is a nuclear physicist and taught at the Institute her grandparents founded.
Pierre is a biochemist, definitely more lowkey but very respected and decorated.
Helene's husband (a nuclear physicist as well) is the grandson of another legendary physicist, who actually had an affair with a widowed Marie Curie.
Hélène's son is an astrophysicist.
Pierre's sons are ALSO academics, a neuroscientist and and biologist.
The brain genes are on fire in this family.
It's also worthy to note that despite being the only member of her family to have a career in something completely unrelated to science, the youngest daughter of Marie and Pierre, Ève, was a journalist and writer who commited most of her life to UNICEF. Her husband accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the organization.
Oh yeah she also died relatively recently, in 2007. At 102 years old.
Mother Marie, daughter Irene-Joliot, and daughter's husband Frédéric Joliot died of radiation related sicknesses. Father Pierre was also tremendously poisoned but his head got run over by a wagon wheel before he had the chance to die via radiation sickness.
WhiteNorthBlackCraft on February 11st, 2021 at 06:23 UTC »
It gets better:
Both of Irene's children are still alive and they were both highly respected scientists:
Hélène is a nuclear physicist and taught at the Institute her grandparents founded.
Pierre is a biochemist, definitely more lowkey but very respected and decorated.
Helene's husband (a nuclear physicist as well) is the grandson of another legendary physicist, who actually had an affair with a widowed Marie Curie.
Hélène's son is an astrophysicist.
Pierre's sons are ALSO academics, a neuroscientist and and biologist.
The brain genes are on fire in this family.
It's also worthy to note that despite being the only member of her family to have a career in something completely unrelated to science, the youngest daughter of Marie and Pierre, Ève, was a journalist and writer who commited most of her life to UNICEF. Her husband accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the organization.Oh yeah she also died relatively recently, in 2007. At 102 years old.
EDIT: Added some info.
Data-Minor on February 11st, 2021 at 06:54 UTC »
That's because they were a nuclear family.
buttmike1 on February 11st, 2021 at 07:22 UTC »
Mother Marie, daughter Irene-Joliot, and daughter's husband Frédéric Joliot died of radiation related sicknesses. Father Pierre was also tremendously poisoned but his head got run over by a wagon wheel before he had the chance to die via radiation sickness.