Talent oozed from this threesome. Best known of the bunch, Marie Curie (1857-1934) earned the Nobel Prize not once but twice—first in Physics in 1903 (the award was shared with her husband, Pierre Curie, and Henri Becquerel) for the discovery of radium and polonium, and again in Chemistry in 1911 for her work in radioactivity.

Marie’s oldest daughter Irène Joliot-Curie (1897-1956) became the second woman to receive a Nobel Prize in Chemistry, who, with her husband, Frédéric Joliot, discovered the synthesis of new radioactive elements.

Marie’s youngest daughter Ève Curie Labouisse (1904-2007), a notable writer, journalist and humanitarian, documented these stories and others in her writings, including the celebrated biography of her mother “Madame Curie,” published in 1937 with the film adaptation following in 1943. Clever and witty, Ève often quipped regarding interview requests , “I’m sorry. I’m the Curie who didn’t win a Nobel Prize.”