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Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie was a French physicist and chemist, and a pioneer in crystallography and magnetism. He shared one half of the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife, Marie Curie, for their work on radioactivity. With their win, the Curies became the first married couple to win a Nobel Prize, launching the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes.
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science · French physicist and chemist (1859–1906) · physicist · chemist · university teacher · nuclear physicist · also Pierre Curie, Curie
Born 15 May 1859 · Died 19 April 1906 · Q37463
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2025· 1 entry
Artnet news: Pierre Curie, from Medicine and Science
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2014· 1 entry
Le Parisien: EN IMAGES. Bondy : un nouveau collège Marie et Pierre-Curie pour la rentrée
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1991· 1 entry
Through this paternal grandmother, Pierre Curie is also a direct descendant of the Basel scientist and mathematician Jean Bernoulli (1667–1748), as is Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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1965· 1 entry
She was the only member of the Curie family to not become a physicist. Ève married Henry Richardson Labouisse Jr., who received a Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of UNICEF in 1965.
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1909· 1 entry
Won Elliott Cresson Medal (1909).
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1906· 6 entries
Awarded Jean Reynaud Prize (1906).
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Died 1906-04-19.
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“Opis: o Piotrze i Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie.”
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“Pierwsza jego wada to to, że jest genialny, co u współzawodników wywołuje nieprzejednaną, głuchą ku niemu niechęć.”
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“Opis: ojciec Piotra Curie, po wiadomości o śmierci syna.”
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“If one leaves a wooden or cardboard box containing a small glass ampulla with several centigrams of a radium salt in one’s pocket for a few hours, one will feel absolutely nothing. But 15 days afterwards a redness will appear on the epidermis, and then a sore which will be very difficult to heal.”
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1905· 1 entry
“A whole year has passed since I was able to do any work … evidently I have not found the way of defending us against frittering away our time, and yet it is very necessary. It is a question of life or death from the intellectual point of view.”
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1904· 1 entry
Won Matteucci Medal (1904).
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1903· 5 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — 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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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1903).
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Won Davy Medal (1903).
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Pierre and Marie Curie, as well as Henri Becquerel, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their research on radioactivity
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To honor the Curies' work, the Royal Society invited Pierre to present their research
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1901· 1 entry
Awarded La Caze Prize of the Academy of Sciences (1901).
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1900· 1 entry
Was promoted to Professor in the Faculty of Sciences, and became Titular Professor in 1904
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1881· 1 entry
Demonstrated the reverse effect; that crystals could be made to deform when subject to an electric field
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1880· 1 entry
Pierre and his older brother, Jacques, demonstrated that an electric potential was generated when crystals were compressed, i
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1859· 1 entry
Born 1859-05-15.
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1853· 1 entry
Pierre Curie's grandfather, Paul Curie (1799–1853), a doctor of medicine, was a committed Malthusian humanist and married Augustine Hofer, daughter of Jean Hofer and great-granddaughter of Jean-Henri Dollfus, great industrialists from Mulhouse in the second half of the 18th century and the first part of the 19th century.
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