Pierre Curie
Physicist, Academic
1859 – 1906
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Who was Pierre Curie?
Pierre Curie was a French physicist, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity and radioactivity. In 1903 he received the Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife, Marie Skłodowska Curie, and Henri Becquerel, "in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel".
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- Born
- May 15, 1859
Paris - Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Marie Curie
(1895/07/26 - 1906/04/19)
- Marie Curie
- Children
- Nationality
- France
- Profession
- Education
- Sorbonne
- University of Paris
- Lived in
- France
- Paris
- Died
- Apr 19, 1906
Paris - Resting place
- Panthéon, Paris
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on July 23, 2013
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