do you know these 6 married couples who have been awarded nobel prize together
Attributing your life’s work in a single focused, monumentals finding or work of inspiration and sharing the same with your loved one shoulder to shoulder doesn’t happen to most of us. Working long hours and especially inside a lab or in service can be lonely and isolating to the parties involved and that’s exactly why these 6 couples shared their lives, labs and laurels together.
Here are 6 couples who have stood out in history as not just individual beautiful minds but also getting the Nobel Prize for their body of work together.
| Couple | Year(s) | Nobel Prize Field | Notable Contribution |
| Marie & Pierre Curie | 1903, 1911 | Physics, Chemistry | Discovery of radioactivity, polonium, and radium |
| Irène Joliot-Curie & Frédéric Joliot | 1935 | Chemistry | Discovery of artificial radioactivity |
| Gerty & Carl Cori | 1947 | Physiology/Medicine | Discovery of the enzymatic conversion of glycogen |
| Alva & Gunnar Myrdal | 1974 (Gunnar), 1982 (Alva) | Economic Sciences (Gunnar), Peace (Alva) | Gunnar: Research on economic and social processes; Alva: Advocacy for nuclear disarmament |
| May-Britt & Edvard I. Moser | 2014 | Physiology/Medicine | Discovery of the brain’s positioning system (“inner GPS”) |
| Esther Duflo & Abhijit Banerjee | 2019 | Economic Sciences | Experimental approach to poverty alleviation through randomized controlled trials |
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