But did you know that Marie and Pierre Curie's daughter went on to win a Nobel Prize herself? Born on September 12, 1897, in Paris, France, Irene Joliot-Curie emerged as a prominent figure in the ...

Irène Joliot-Curie, her husband Frédéric ... Once they won the Nobel Prize for discovering radium, Irene saw her mother even less. Marie Curie was wary of the French educational system ...

Even as Marie Curie and her husband Pierre and their daughter Irène and her husband Frederic Joliot-Curie were awarded joint Nobel Prizes, Gerty and Carl Cori were discouraged from working together.

She thus became the first person to win two Nobel Prizes. The Curie's daughter, Irène Joliot-Curie, followed in her mother's footsteps. As a young woman, Irène worked with her mother running radiology ...