盘点左撇子名人（5）

　　No. 5 Marie Curie 居里夫人

　　Not only was atomic scientist Marie Curie left-handed, but she was the matriarch of a whole family of accomplished, southpaw scientists. Curie, who discovered the principles of radioactivity and won two Nobel Prizes, was married to fellow lefty Pierre Curie, who was instrumental in helping Marie's atomic research and shared one of her Nobel awards. Historians believe their daughter, Irene, was also left-handed. Irene went on to win a Nobel Prize of her own with her husband--who, you guessed it, was also left-handed.

　　原子科学家居里夫人不仅仅自己是左撇子，她作为女家长，他们一家子都是建树斐然的左撇子科学家。居里夫人发现了放射原理，两次获得了诺贝尔奖，她嫁给了同为左撇子的科学家皮耶尔·居里，他对居里夫人的原子研究给予了很大的帮助，还和他的夫人分享了一座诺贝尔奖。历史学家相信，他们的女儿伊雷娜也是左撇子。伊雷娜也和她的丈夫一起获得了她自己的诺贝尔奖，而她的丈夫嘛......你猜对了，也是个左撇子。

　　Lefty scientists are hardly unusual. In addition to the Curie clan, Einstein, Newton and Alan Turing--founder of modern computer science--all were left-handed as well.

　　左撇子科学家其实并不少见。除了居里夫人一家之外，爱因斯坦、牛顿和现代电脑科学的创始人阿兰·图灵都是左撇子。