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List of couples awarded the Nobel Prize

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The following is a list of couples who were awarded and nominated for the Nobel Prize.[1][2] The latest couple to receive the Prize were Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo for Economics.[3][4]

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The first couple nominated for the Nobel Prize were the American pacifists Edwin Mead (1849–1937) and Lucia Ames Mead (1856–1936). They were endorsed by Samuel Train Dutton (1849–1919) for their numerous contributions in the promotion of peace.[15] Henceforth, other couples began getting nominated for the prestigious Swedish prize whether jointly or separately in their respective fields. Aside from the following couples with verified nominations from the Nobel Committee, there are also other couples purportedly endorsed and whose nominations are yet to be verified since the archives are revealed 50 years after,[16] among them are Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci-Şahin[17][18] (for Medicine), John Q. Trojanowski and Virginia Man-Yee Lee[19] (for Medicine), Patrick S. Moore and Yuan Chang-Moore[20] (for Medicine), John Kappler and Philippa Marrack-Kappler[21] (for Medicine), Jerome Karle[c] and Isabella Lugoski Karle[22] (for Chemistry), Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky-Pevear (for Literature), Paul Auster and Siri Hustvedt (for Literature), Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates[23] (for Peace), Amory Lovins and Hunter Sheldon-Lovins (for Peace), Ivan Suvanjieff and Dawn Engle-Suvanjieff[24] (for Peace), and Søren Johansen and Katarina Juselius-Johansen[21] (for Economics).

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Notes

  1. Marie Curie was awarded the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "in recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element."[5]
  2. Edvard and May-Britt Moser announced their divorce in 2016, but still continue their scientific work together.[11][12]
  3. The Karles developed what is known as the direct method of determining molecular structures, which has been used by scientists to develop new compounds for industry and medicine. This breakthrough earned Jerome the 1958 Nobel Prize in Chemistry — though it snubbed Isabella's effort which greatly upset Jerome. Isabella apparently was unmoved by the slight, as she already had a distinguished record of awards for her experimental work.[22]
  4. Years the couple were nominated together (some couples were nominated separately).
  5. Sartre famously proposed an open relationship and de Beauvoir agreed. Though not officially married in any ceremony, Sartre and De Beauvoir lived as a couple for over 50 years until their deaths in the 1980s. Sartre alone won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964 but he declined the prize.[45]

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