Marie Curie's family has won five Nobel prizes
Physicist and chemist Marie Curie, who was the first female Nobel laureate, and her immediate family have won five Nobel prizes among themselves. Marie Curie and her husband Pierre Curie won the Physics Nobel in 1901 before Marie's solo Chemistry Nobel in 1911. Their daughter Irène Joliot-Curie and her husband Frédéric Joliot-Curie won the Nobel prize for Chemistry in 1935.