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  2. Pierre Curie - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Marie Curie - Wikipedia

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    Marie Curie's birthplace, 16 Freta Street, Warsaw, Poland. Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie [a] (Polish: [ˈmarja salɔˈmɛa skwɔˈdɔfska kʲiˈri] ⓘ; née Skłodowska; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), known simply as Marie Curie (/ ˈ k j ʊər i / KURE-ee; [1] French: [maʁi kyʁi]), was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on ...

  4. Hélène Langevin-Joliot - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Curie family - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Curie - Wikipedia

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    Marie Skłodowska–Curie (1867–1934), Polish chemist and physicist, two-time Nobel Prize winner, Pierre's wife; Irène Joliot-Curie (1897–1956), French physicist and Nobel Prize winner, Pierre and Marie's daughter; Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900–1958), French physicist and Nobel Prize winner, Irène's husband

  7. Paul-Jacques Curie - Wikipedia

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    The major legacy of Jacques Curie is the discovery of the piezoelectric effect with his brother Pierre in 1880. The two brothers were then laboratory assistants at the Faculty of Sciences of Paris, under the direction of Charles Friedel. The accounts of their discovery generally give Jacques Curie only a minor role in favor of his brother Pierre.

  8. 1903 - Wikipedia

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    Pierre Brossolette, French journalist, resistance fighter (d. 1944) George Orwell, English author (d. 1950) Anne Revere, American actress (d. 1990) June 26. Harry DeWolf, Canadian naval officer (d. 2000) Big Bill Broonzy, American blues singer, composer (d. 1958) (some sources give his year of birth as 1893) June 29

  9. Henri Becquerel - Wikipedia

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    Antoine Henri Becquerel (/ ˌ b ɛ k ə ˈ r ɛ l /; [2] French: [ɑ̃ʁi bɛkʁɛl]; 15 December 1852 – 25 August 1908) was a French physicist who shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pierre and Marie Curie for his discovery of radioactivity. [3]