Marie and Irene Curie, Mother and Daughter, Two Ladies, Three Nobel Awards

 

Miroslav Jandrić

Dimitrije Dimić

 

It has been 150 years since Marie was born, and 120 years since Irene was born, mother and daughter Curie, two ladies who dedicated their lives to science and were awarded three Nobel prizes. Marie Sklodowska Curie was not only the first female to receive the Nobel award, but also the first person to receive the award two times, and the only women to receive the awards for two different areas of science (physics and chemistry). Irene Jolio Curie, having inherited the genetic code of her parents and with enormous scientific effort and dedication, received her own Nobel Prize from chemistry. Marie and Irene, women of Slavic descent, paved the way for other women in science and education, with a sheer power of their minds, in times when little attention was paid to women’s education