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Facts

Born May 15, 1859 • Paris • France
Died April 19, 1906 (aged 46) • Paris • France
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1903)
Notable Family Members spouse Marie Curie • daughter Irène Joliot-Curie • daughter Ève Curie
Subjects Of Study Curie’s law • diamagnetism • ferromagnetism • magnetism • paramagnetism • piezoelectricity • pitchblende • polonium • radioactivity • radium • symmetry • balance

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Pierre and Marie Curie with their daughter Irène
Pierre Curie
Marie Curie, Pierre Curie, and Gustave Bémont
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Pierre and Marie Curie
radium research equipment
Marie and Pierre Curie radium experiment
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Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist
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Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French chemist and physicist
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Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist
Wigner, 1962
Eugene Wigner
American physicist
Becquerel, Henri
Henri Becquerel
French physicist
Gabriel Lippmann
Gabriel Lippmann
French physicist
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Louis-Eugène-Félix Néel
French physicist
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Charles Édouard Guillaume
French physicist
Langmuir, Irving
Irving Langmuir
American chemist
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John B. Goodenough
American physicist
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Peter Debye
American physical chemist
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist
Francis William Aston.
Francis William Aston
British physicist
Werner Karl Heisenberg sits at a desk in a suit with his hands folded, bookshelves in the background.
Werner Heisenberg
German physicist and philosopher
Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi
Italian-born American scientist
Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian physicist
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
Lord Rayleigh
British scientist
Bragg, Sir Lawrence
Sir Lawrence Bragg
British physicist
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Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa
Soviet physicist
Sir William Bragg
Sir William Bragg
British physicist

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