Before Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, 5 Couples Won Nobel Honours

India-born Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo became the sixth couple to win the coveted Nobel Prize. Both of them are professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US. Before Abhijit-Esther, there were five couples who were honoured with the prestigious Nobel Prize.

Hyderabad: India-born Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo became the sixth couple to win the coveted Nobel Prize. Both of them are professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US.

Banerjee, who is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the MIT, supervised Duflo's PhD with Joshua Angrist in 1990.

The duo got married in 2015 and their co-authored book 'Good Economics in Hard Times' will hit the stands this week.

The couple shared the Nobel prize with Harvard University professor Michael Kremer for "introducing new approach to obtaining reliable answers about the best ways to fight global poverty".

Before them, there were five couples who were honoured with the prestigious Nobel Prize.

1) Marie Curie and Pierre Curie

Polish-born Marie Curie and her French husband Pierre Curie shared the Nobel Prize in physics in 1903 for their “joint researches on the radiation phenomena."

2) Frederic Joliot and Irene Joliot-Curie

Daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie, Irene, along with her husband Frederic Joliot won a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1935. They studied the structure of the atom which was an essential step in the discovery of the neutron.

3) Carl Cori and Gerty Cori

In 1947, Carl Cori and his wife Gerty Cori shared the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine with Bernardo Alberto Houssay for "their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen."

4) Alva Myrdal and Gunnar Myrdal

Alva Myrdal and Gunnar Myrdal both won Nobel prizes but in different years and in different categories. Gunnar was awarded the 1974 Economics Prize along with Austria's Friedrich August von Hayek for "their pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations." Eight years later, diplomat and politician Alva Myrdal shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Mexican Alfonso Garcia Robles for their roles in U.N disarmament negotiations.

5) May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser

The Mosers shared the Nobel Prize in medicine in 2014 with U.S.-British scientist John O'Keefe for their discovery of the brain's positioning system.