Marie Curie and IrÃ¨ne only mother-daughter pair to win Nobel
Polish scientist Marie Curie, who was born on November 7, 1867, jointly won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband Pierre Curie before her solo Chemistry Nobel in 1911. Their daughter IrÃ¨ne jointly won the 1935 Chemistry Nobel with her husband FrÃ©dÃ©ric Joliot-Curie, making Marie and IrÃ¨ne the only mother-daughter pair to win the Nobel Prize.