Ruminations from the Web

Searching the web for clues regarding my family has made me (sometimes) wander aimlessly from page to page but also leads me to interesting facts that may not be direct related to me but still worth saving, like this one:

Paul Langevin - 4th cousin once removed

Paul Langevin, the second son of  Victor Langevin and ?(mother - have not found a name yet), great-grandniece of the Philippe Pinel (for now I am adding this branch under Jean-Pierre Pinel) was a physicist and supervised by Pierre Curie.

Now the interesting tidbit from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie;

"...In 1911, it was revealed that during 1910–11 Marie Curie had conducted an affair of about a year's duration with physicist Paul Langevin, a former student of Pierre Curie. He was a married man who was estranged from his wife. This resulted in a press scandal that was exploited by her academic opponents... Despite her fame as a scientist working for France,... She was five years older than Langevin and was portrayed in the tabloids as a home-wrecker. Later, Curie's granddaughter, Hélène Joliot, married Langevin's grandson, Michel Langevin."

The things you find in the internet!