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Born in Paris on 15 May 1859, Pierre Curie was the son of Eugène Curie (1827–1910), a doctor of French Huguenot Protestant origin from Alsace, and Sophie-Claire Curie (née Depouilly; 1832–1897). He was educated by his father and in his early teens showed a strong aptitude for mathematics and geometry.
The Curie family is a French-Polish family from which hailed a number of distinguished scientists. Polish-born Marie Skłodowska-Curie , her French husband Pierre Curie , their daughter, Irène Joliot-Curie , and son-in-law, Frédéric Joliot-Curie , are its most prominent members.
Irène Joliot-Curie, daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie, who received the Nobel prize for chemistry for the discovery of artificial radioactivity. She often asked Raymond to give lectures on her behalf in la Sorbonne whenever she was unavailable. Frédéric Joliot-Curie who received the exceptional honour of a national funeral
Her mother Marie Skłodowska-Curie and herself also form the only mother–daughter pair to have won Nobel Prizes [2] whilst Pierre and Irène Curie form the only father-daughter pair to have won Nobel Prizes by the same occasion, whilst there are six father-son pairs who have won Nobel Prizes by comparison. [3]
Hélène Langevin-Joliot (née Joliot-Curie; born 19 September 1927) is a French nuclear physicist known for her research on nuclear reactions in French laboratories and for being the granddaughter of Marie Curie and Pierre Curie and the daughter of Irene Joliot-Curie and Frédéric Joliot-Curie, all four of whom have received Nobel Prizes, in Physics (Pierre and Marie Curie) [2] or Chemistry ...
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He married Elizabeth Scriven Clark on June 29, 1935. He married Ève Curie in 1954, nine years after Elizabeth died. The marriage with Ève made him the son-in-law of Marie and Pierre Curie. [2] In 1965, he accepted on behalf of UNICEF the Nobel Prize for Peace and became one of the five Nobel Prize winners of the Curie family. [2]
Treatise on Radioactivity (French: Traité de Radioactivité) is a two-volume 1910 book written by the Polish scientist Marie Curie as a survey on the subject of radioactivity. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] She was awarded her second Nobel Prize in the following year after the publication of the book. [ 4 ]