Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie (1859–1906) was a French physicist who, with his wife Marie Curie, discovered the radioactive elements polonium and radium.
The couple shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with Henri Becquerel.
Pierre also made foundational contributions to crystallography and magnetism.
He died in a Paris street accident, struck by a horse-drawn wagon.
- husband and wifeMarried pair
- radiumRadioactive alkaline earth metal
- radioactivitySpontaneous nuclear decay
- poloniumElement number eighty-four
- radioactive elementsNuclei that spontaneously decay
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