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TIL that Marie Skłodowska Curie, the first and only woman awarded twice a Nobel Prize, married with Pierre Curie (Nobel Prize for Chemisty), had a daughter that was awarded too, jointly with his husband in 1935. This made the Curies the family with the most Nobel laureates to date.

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