"Marie Curie is unique as the only person to have received Nobel Prizes in two different natural sciences Physics in 1903 and Chemistry in 1911. Her husband, Pierre, was a co-winner on her first Nobel Prize. Marie Curie won the prizes for her groundbreaking work on radioactivity, and for the discovery of new elements."
"In their 1919 divorce settlement, Albert Einstein promised his then-wife, Mileva Maric, that he would give her the entire prize money of a future Nobel Prize at a time when Einstein had yet to win the prize. When Einstein finally won a Nobel Prize in 1921, he transferred the money as promised, giving Maric a certain financial security for herself and their children."
"The Nobel Prize committee repeatedly rejected Einstein's theory of relativity because it seemed too speculative and theoretical to them; they preferred experimental evidence. It was only when pressure from the international scientific community grew that Einstein received his 1921 Nobel Prize not for the theory of relativity, but for his theory of the photoelectric effect, which could be measured and verified."
Marie Curie is the only person awarded Nobel Prizes in two different natural sciences, receiving Physics in 1903 and Chemistry in 1911. Pierre Curie shared the 1903 prize with her. Marie Curie's research established radioactivity and enabled the discovery of new elements. Irene Joliot-Curie and her husband, Frederic, won the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for producing artificial radioactive isotopes. Over two generations the Curie family accumulated five Nobel Prizes. Albert Einstein promised Mileva Maric the money from a future Nobel Prize in their 1919 divorce and transferred his 1921 prize funds to her. The Nobel committee initially rejected relativity and awarded Einstein for the photoelectric effect, yet relativity reshaped scientific understanding.
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