Pierre Curie and Marie Curie
Pierre Currie was a highly celebrated French physicist. He was born on the fifteenth of May 1859 and died in the nineteenth of April 1906. Here is a player near have a number of technologies including crystallography, radioactivity and magnetism. Along with his wife, Marie Curie, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903.
His wife was also a physicist and chemist who eventually came to have French citizenship although she was born and brought up in Poland. She was also a pioneer in the area of radioactivity and one of the very first people who was awarded two Nobel prizes. She was also the first female professor in the University of Paris.
Born in Warsaw, she lived there until she was 24. She was born on November the seventh 1867 and died at the age of sixty-six and the fourth of July 1934. She was married to Pierre Currie in July of 1895. She was the daughter of some well known teachers and she had three siblings although she was the youngest child. A grandfather had also been a well-known teacher in the city of Lublin.
Some of the work of covered most famous for was isolated and lonely and radium. They went on to be the first to use the term radioactivity which is now very well known term today. If one of his students, Pierre came to discover nuclear energy after identifying the emission of heat from particles of radium.
The term radioactivity was actually coined by Marie. She and her husband worked together over the years discovering the cause and workings of radioactivity. They found techniques for isolating isotope with radioactive and discovered that two new elements radium and polonium. The latter was named after her home country in spite of having become a loyal friend citizen with her marriage to her husband.
Posted: June 4th, 2009 under Couples in History.



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