盤點左撇子名人（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.

　　原子科學家居里夫人不僅僅自己是左撇子，她作為女家長，他們一家子都是建樹斐然的左撇子科學家。居里夫人發現了放射原理，兩次獲得了諾貝爾獎，她嫁給了同為左撇子的科學家皮耶爾·居里，他對居里夫人的原子研究給予了很大的幫助，還和他的夫人分享了一座諾貝爾獎。歷史學家相信，他們的女兒伊雷娜也是左撇子。伊雷娜也和她的丈夫一起獲得了她自己的諾貝爾獎，而她的丈夫嘛......你猜對了，也是個左撇子。

　　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.

　　左撇子科學家其實并不少見。除了居里夫人一家之外，愛因斯坦、牛頓和現代電腦科學的創始人阿蘭·圖靈都是左撇子。