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Pierre Curie's grandfather, Paul Curie (1799–1853), a doctor of medicine, was a committed Malthusian humanist and married Augustine Hofer, daughter of Jean Hofer and great-granddaughter of Jean-Henri Dollfus, great industrialists from Mulhouse in the second half of the 18th century and the first part of the 19th century.
In 1895, she married the French physicist Pierre Curie, and she shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with him and with the physicist Henri Becquerel for their pioneering work developing the theory of "radioactivity"—a term she coined. In 1906, Pierre Curie died in a Paris street accident.
Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier (1754–1785) was the first known fatality in an air crash when his Rozière balloon crashed on 15 June 1785 while he and Pierre Romain attempted to cross the English Channel. Thomas Harris (d. 1824) invented the gas discharge valve, the first such device for emptying a lighter-than-air balloon of gas. He died ...
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Curie's principle, or Curie's symmetry principle, is a maxim about cause and effect formulated by Pierre Curie in 1894: [1] the symmetries of the causes are to be found in the effects. [2] [3] [4] The idea was based on the ideas of Franz Ernst Neumann and Bernhard Minnigerode. Thus, it is sometimes known as the Neuman–Minnigerode–Curie ...
In a YouTube video posted on his channel in June 2023, Doherty revealed that the McLaren cost $202,850, and he had since wrapped the car in a custom, blue paint-splattered design.
The Deadliest Crash – George Pollen's 2009 1hr documentary analysing the race and the accident, interviewing drivers and witnesses. Retrieved 10 December 2016; Video of accident and aftermath. Retrieved 10 December 2016; YouTube – ‘British Pathé’ colour film (no sound) of the race (8mins). Retrieved 10 December 2016
Marie Curie wants to encourage people to rethink how they talk about the topic of death so that the first time we’re not discussing it is when we actually face losing someone. The 'Whatever You ...