All in the Family: The Dynasties That Changed Science

About the influential families of science and the legacies they left behind.

By Lacy Schley
Apr 18, 2017 8:49 PMNov 21, 2019 10:16 PM
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The Curies

Pierre Curie (1859-1906) Physicist and chemist

Originally specialized in crystallography, but joined his wife’s research. Their discovery of radioactive elements radium and polonium earned them the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with Henri Becquerel.

Marie Curie (1867-1934) Chemist and physicist

Won a second Nobel Prize, in chemistry, in 1911, for continued study of radioactive elements.

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