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Rolf Steinort | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @b43cfc26 @b32610c7 Why did you limit this to male scientists? Marie Curie and Irene Joliot-Curie shouldn’t be left out.
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Project Gutenberg | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @bb693ccc It wasn't my intention since the post was related to Aage Niels Bohr's death #otd
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Project Gutenberg | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
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William Henry Bragg (1915) & William Lawrence Bragg (1915); J. J. Thomson (1906) & George Paget Thomson (1937); & Manne Siegbahn (1924) & Kai M. Siegbahn (1981). Two pairs of fathers & sons have won Nobel Prizes in other fields: Hans von Euler-Chelpin (chemistry, 1929) & Ulf von Euler (medicine, 1970); & Arthur Kornberg (medicine, 1969) & Roger D. Kornberg (chemistry, 2006). One pair of mother & daughter: Marie Curie (physics 1903; chemistry 1911) & Irène Joliot-Curie (chemistry, 1935)