Pierre Curie
1859
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1906
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: France
languages spoken, written or signed: French
educated at: Science Faculty of Paris, Sorbonne, homeschooling
occupation: physicist, chemist, university teacher, nuclear physicist
award received: Nobel Prize in Physics, Elliott Cresson Medal, Benjamin Franklin Medal, Davy Medal, Matteucci Medal, La Caze Prize of the Academy of Sciences
position held: professor
Pierre Curie ( KURE-ee, French: [pjɛʁ kyʁi]; 15 May 1859 – 19 April 1906) 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". With their win, the Curies became the first ever married couple to win the Nobel Prize, launching the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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