Pierre Curie

1859–1906 · French physicist, pioneer of radioactivity, 1903 Nobel laureate

Pierre Curie was born in Paris on 15 May 1859. He shared one half of the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife, Marie Skłodowska-Curie, for their research on radioactivity; Henri Becquerel received the other half. Pierre gave the couple’s required Nobel lecture on 6 June 1905, and he was killed in a Paris street accident with a horse-drawn cart on 19 April 1906.

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“I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries”

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