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The Curie family is a French-Polish family from which hailed a number of illustrious scientists. Pierre Curie, his Polish-born wife Marie Skłodowska-Curie, their daughter, Irène, and son-in-law, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, are its most prominent members. Five members of the family in total were awarded a Nobel Prize. Marie and Pierre shared a Nobel Prize in Physics and Marie was awarded a second one in chemistry, making her the only person in history to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific disciplines; Irène and Frédéric Joliot-Curie won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935; while Henry Richardson Labouisse, Jr., the spouse of Irène's younger sister, Ève Curie, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1965. The chemical element curium (number 96) is named after Marie and Pierre.[1]

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Paul Curie (1799–1853), physician, humanist.
x Augustine Hofer (1805–1883), a descendant of the famous scholar and mathematician Johann Bernoulli (1667–1748).

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The Curie family won a total of 5 Nobel Prizes. [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]

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