Marie Sklodowska was awarded the second Nobel Award for discovery and researching nature of two new elements - polonium (named after her native country, occupied by Russia at the time) and radium (named after radiation)[([[https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1911/marie-curie/facts/|Nobel Prize]])] | Marie Sklodowska was awarded her second Nobel Prize for the discovery and researching the nature of two new elements: polonium (named after her native country, occupied by Russia at the time) and radium (named after radiation).[([[https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1911/marie-curie/facts/|Nobel Prize]])] |
Marie received Nobel Prize with her husband, Pierre. Their daughter, Irène Joliot-Curie, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935 shared with her husband, Frédéric Joliot-Curie. The second daughter, Ève Curie, was the only family member who didn't become a scientist and didn't win Nobel Prize, but her husband, Henry Richardson Labouisse, received Nobel Peace Prize in 1965 on behalf of UNICEF. Ève often joked: "There were five Nobel Prizes in my family, two for my mother, one for my father, one for sister and brother-in-law, and one for my husband. Only I was not successful". [([[https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/when-the-nobel-prize-is-a-family-affair-675246|NDTV]])] | Marie received the Nobel Prize with her husband, Pierre. Their daughter, Irène Joliot-Curie, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935, which she shared with her husband, Frédéric Joliot-Curie. Their second daughter, Ève Curie, was the only family member who didn't become a scientist and didn't win a Nobel Prize, but her husband, Henry Richardson Labouisse, received a Nobel Peace Prize in 1965 on behalf of UNICEF. Ève often joked: "There were five Nobel Prizes in my family, two for my mother, one for my father, one for sister and brother-in-law, and one for my husband. Only I was not successful." [([[https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/when-the-nobel-prize-is-a-family-affair-675246|NDTV]])] |