Pierre Curie - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1903
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Pierre Curie

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1903
in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel
Citizenship
FranceFrance
Languages
French
date of birth
5/15/1859
place of birth
Paris
date of death
4/19/1906
place of death
Paris
Lived
46 years
occupation
  • university teacher
  • nuclear physicist
  • physicist
  • chemist
field of work
  • radioactivity
  • crystallography
  • piezoelectricity
  • chemistry
  • magnetism
  • physics
educated at
  • Sorbonne
  • Science Faculty of Paris
  • homeschooling
employer
  • University of Paris
position held
  • professor
member of
  • Pierre and Marie Curie
  • French Academy of Sciences
doctoral student
  • Paul Langevin
notable work
  • radioactivity
  • piezoelectricity
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