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Pierre Curie

1859 - 1906

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Pierre Curie ( KYOOR-ee or kyoo-REE; French: [pjɛʁ kyʁi]; 15 May 1859 – 19 April 1906) was a French physicist, radiochemist, and a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity, and radioactivity. He shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife, Marie 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 married couple to win a Nobel Prize, launching the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Curie is the 13th most popular physicist (down from 10th in 2019), the 46th most popular biography from France (down from 36th in 2019) and the most popular French Physicist.

Pierre Curie is most famous for his work with his wife, Marie Curie, in discovering the elements polonium and radium.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Pierre Curie ranks 13 out of 851. Before him are Michael Faraday, Niels Bohr, Hans Christian Ørsted, Max Planck, Alessandro Volta, and Albert A. Michelson. After him are André-Marie Ampère, Evangelista Torricelli, Erwin Schrödinger, Henri Becquerel, J. J. Thomson, and James Prescott Joule.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, Pierre Curie ranks 2. Before him is Wilhelm II, German Emperor. After him are Arthur Conan Doyle, Henri Bergson, L. L. Zamenhof, Knut Hamsun, Edmund Husserl, Svante Arrhenius, John Dewey, Georges Seurat, Alfred Dreyfus, and Yuan Shikai. Among people deceased in 1906, Pierre Curie ranks 2. Before him is Paul Cézanne. After him are Henrik Ibsen, Christian IX of Denmark, Ludwig Boltzmann, Élie Ducommun, Archduke Otto of Austria, Raja Ravi Varma, Samuel Pierpont Langley, Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, Susan B. Anthony, and Georgy Gapon.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Curie ranks 46 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis XVIII of France (1755), Claudius (-10), Simone de Beauvoir (1908), Charles Baudelaire (1821), Marcel Proust (1871), and Henry IV of France (1553). After him are Denis Diderot (1713), André-Marie Ampère (1775), Émile Zola (1840), Gustave Flaubert (1821), Brigitte Bardot (1934), and Édouard Manet (1832).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Pierre Curie ranks 1. After him are André-Marie Ampère (1775), Henri Becquerel (1852), Louis de Broglie (1892), Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736), Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis (1792), Henry Cavendish (1731), Léon Foucault (1819), Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900), Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870), François Arago (1786), and Albert Fert (1938).

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