Creative couples in the sciences Pierre Curie and His eminent collaborator Mme Curie : complementary partners Star scientists in a nobelist family: Ir(c)♭ne and Fr(c)♭d(c)♭ric Joliot Curie Carl and Gerty Cori: a personal recollection John and Elizabeth Gould: ornithologists and scientific illustrators 1829 1841 Dispelling the myth of the able assistant: Margaret and William Huggins at work in the Tulse Hill Observatory The Comstocks of Cornell: a marriage of interests Grace Chisholm Young and William Henry Young: a partnership of itinerant British mathematicians Marriage and scientific work in twentieth century Canada: the Berkeleys in marine biology and the Hoggs in astronomy Unusually close companions: Frieda Cobb Blanchard and Frank Nelson Blanchard Kathleen and Thomas Lonsdale: forty three years of spiritual and scientific life together Clanging eagles: the marriage and collaboration between two nineteenth century physicians Mary Putnam Jacobi and Abraham Jacobi My life is a thing of the past : the Whitmans in zoology and marriage Albert Einstein and Mileva Mar(c)Ưc: a collaboration that failed to develop Sociologists in the vineyard: the careers of Helen MacGill Hughes and Everett Cherrington Hughes Botanical and ecological couples: a continuum of relationships Patterns of collaboration in turn of the century astronomy: the Campbells and the Maunders Collaborative couples who wanted to the change the world: the social policies and personal tensions of the Russells the Myrdals and the Mead Batesons