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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 ...
He Zehui is at the front, second from right; her future husband Qian Sanqiang is at the back, far left. He Zehui was born in Suzhou in 1914. She attended 振華女中 , a predecessor of Suzhou No.10 Middle School where she was interested in a variety of subjects and was on the volleyball team. [ 2 ]
Irène Joliot-Curie (French: [iʁɛn ʒɔljo kyʁi] ⓘ; née Curie; 12 September 1897 – 17 March 1956) was a French chemist and physicist who received the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with her husband, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, for their discovery of induced radioactivity.
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.
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.
Died Years Nominated Notes 1902: Marie Skłodowska Curie: 7 November 1867 Warsaw, Congress of Poland, Russian Empire [a] 4 July 1934 Passy, Haute-Savoie, French Third Republic [b] 1902, 1903: Awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with Henri Becquerel and husband Pierre Curie and the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. [17] 1935: Irène Joliot ...
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 ]
After this accident, Marie Curie accepted her husband's teaching position at La Sorbonne. Her father-in-law, Dr. Eugène Curie, had moved in with the family when his wife died, and he took care of the children while Pierre and Marie, and then Marie only, went to work.