Hélène Langevin-Joliot had quite a family legacy to live up to as the daughter and granddaughter of Nobel Prize winners, but she wasn’t deterred and has made her own impression on the world of physics.
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As one of the daughters of Marie and Pierre Curie, Irene Joliot-Curie was raised in the spotlight of the groundbreaking work of her parents, but still managed to make breakthroughs of her own, earning a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935.
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Emmanuelle Charpentier is a Nobel Prize winning microbiologist who helped create CRISPR/Cas9.
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Dr. Claire Voisin is one of the world’s leading researchers in complex algebraic geometry.
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The first female president of the International Astronomical Union, Catherine Cesarsky, earned this position with a distinguished career in several areas of modern physics.
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Restrictions of her time kept Marie-Anne Lavoisier from becoming a chemist herself, but she was integral to her husband’s work and the two changed chemistry forever.
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The late 18th century was not the best time to devote yourself to a life-long study of mathematics if you were the daughter of a merchant growing up in Paris, France. But that didn’t stop Marie-Sophie Germain. Image: Wikimedia.
In 1903 Curie became the first woman to receive a doctoral degree in France and was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize. She was later awarded the prize in Chemistry, making her the first person to win two Nobel prizes.
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