TIL that in 1903, when Pierre Curie learned that he was going to win the Nobel Prize in Physics, he threatened to refuse it if he could not share it with his wife, Marie Curie, who was not to receive it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie#Nobel_Prizes
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1pui64r/til_that_in_1903_when_pierre_curie_learned_that/