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. 

CoupleYear(s)Nobel Prize FieldNotable Contribution
Marie & Pierre Curie1903, 1911Physics, ChemistryDiscovery of radioactivity, polonium, and radium
Irène Joliot-Curie & Frédéric Joliot1935ChemistryDiscovery of artificial radioactivity
Gerty & Carl Cori1947Physiology/MedicineDiscovery of the enzymatic conversion of glycogen
Alva & Gunnar Myrdal1974 (Gunnar), 1982 (Alva)Economic Sciences (Gunnar), Peace (Alva)Gunnar: Research on economic and social processes; Alva: Advocacy for nuclear disarmament
May-Britt & Edvard I. Moser2014Physiology/MedicineDiscovery of the brain’s positioning system (“inner GPS”)
Esther Duflo & Abhijit Banerjee2019Economic SciencesExperimental approach to poverty alleviation through randomized controlled trials
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