On the periodic table, the element named after a person who won two Nobel Prizes is curium.
Curium has the symbol Cm and atomic number 96. It was named for physicists and chemists Marie Curie and Pierre Curie, whose pioneering work on radioactivity helped establish the field. Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911, making her the only person represented by an element who received two Nobel Prizes.
Curium was first produced in 1944 by Glenn T. Seaborg, Ralph A. James, and Albert Ghiorso. It is a radioactive actinide and does not occur naturally in significant quantities. The team created it by bombarding plutonium with alpha particles.
Curium is sometimes confused with nobelium, named after Alfred Nobel, or einsteinium, named after Albert Einstein. Those names honor different individuals and do not share Marie Curie’s two-Nobel distinction.