The Curie family is a French family with a number of illustrious scientists. Several members were awarded the

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Pierre Curie Pierre Curie ( , ; 15 May 1859 – 19 April 1906) was a French physicist, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity, and radioactivity. In 1903, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife, Marie Curie, and Henri Becq ...

, his Polish-born wife

Marie Curie Marie Salomea Skłodowska–Curie ( , , ; born Maria Salomea Skłodowska, ; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first ...

, their daughter, Irène, and son-in-law,

Frédéric Joliot-Curie Jean Frédéric Joliot-Curie (; ; 19 March 1900 – 14 August 1958) was a French physicist and husband of Irène Joliot-Curie, with whom he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935 for their discovery of Induced radioactivity. T ...

, are the most prominent members.

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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 Johann Bernoulli (also known as Jean or John; – 1 January 1748) was a Swiss mathematician and was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family. He is known for his contributions to infinitesimal calculus and educating Le ...

(1667–1748). ** Eugene Curie (1827–1910), doctor.
x Sophie-Claire Depouilly (1832-1897). ***

Jacques Curie Jacques Curie (29 October 1855 – 19 February 1941) was a French physicist and professor of mineralogy at the University of Montpellier. Along with his younger brother, Pierre Curie, he studied pyroelectricity in the 1880s, leading to their d ...

(1855–1941), physicist.
x Marie Masson (1856–1945). **** Maurice Curie (1888–1975), physicist. ***** Daniel Curie (1927-2000), physicist. ***

(1859–1906), physicist, Nobel Prize in 1903.
x Marie Skłodowska Curie (1867–1934), physicist, chemist, Nobel Prize in 1903 and in 1911. ****

Irène Joliot-Curie Irène Joliot-Curie (; ; 12 September 1897 – 17 March 1956) was a French chemist, physicist and politician, the elder daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie, and the wife of Frédéric Joliot-Curie. Jointly with her husband, Joliot-Curie was awar ...

(1897–1956), physicist, Nobel Prize in 1935.
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(1900–1958), physicist, Nobel Prize in 1935. ***** Pierre Joliot-Curie (1932), biologist.
x Anne Gricouroff, biologist, daughter of Georges Gricouroff and Colette Rodet. ****** Marc Joliot (1962), neuroscientist. ****** Alain Joliot (1964), biologist. ***** Hélène Langevin-Joliot (1927), nuclear physicist.
x Michel Langevin (1926–1985), physicist, son of André Langevin and Luce Dubus, grandson of

Paul Langevin Paul Langevin (; ; 23 January 1872 – 19 December 1946) was a French physicist who developed Langevin dynamics and the Langevin equation. He was one of the founders of the ''Comité de vigilance des intellectuels antifascistes'', an an ...

and Jeanne Desfosses. ****** Françoise Langevin-Mijangos x Christian Mijangos. ****** Yves Langevin (1951), astrophysicist. ****

Ève Curie Ève Denise Curie Labouisse (; December 6, 1904 – October 22, 2007) was a French and American writer, journalist and pianist. Ève Curie was the younger daughter of Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie. Her sister was Irène Joliot-Curie an ...

(1904–2007), writer, journalist, pianist.
x Henry Richardson Labouisse, Jr. (1904–1987), American diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of UNICEF in 1965.

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The Curie family won a total of 5 Nobel Prizes. {{Reflist French families Medical families Scientific families

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