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Archival as AuthorArchival as SubjectPublished as AuthorPublished as SubjectPierre Curie
Dates
May 15, 1859 – April 19, 1906
Authorized Form of Name
Curie, Pierre, 1859-1906
Additional Forms of Names
Curie, P. (Pierre), 1859-1906
Biography
Abstract
Pierre Curie was a nuclear physicist at the École municipale de physique et de chimie industrielles (Municipal School of Industrial Physics and Chemistry), Paris, France. He along with Henri Becquerel and his wife Marie Curie were awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics "in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel."
Important Dates
May 15, 1859Birth, Paris (France).
1878Obtained Licenciateship in Physics, Sorbonne (Université de Paris), Paris (France).
1878 – 1906Demonstrator (1878-1882); Supervisor (1882-1895); Professor of Physics (1895-1900); Professor in the Faculty of Sciences (1900-1904); and Titular Professor (1904-1906), Sorbonne (Université de Paris), Paris (France).
1895Obtained Doctorate in Science, Sorbonne (Université de Paris), Paris (France).
1903Awarded Davy Medal with wife Marie Curie, Royal Society.
1903Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics with wife Marie Curie and Henri Becquerel "in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel".
1904Awarded Matteucci Medal with Marie Curie.
April 19, 1906Death, Paris (France).
Occupation
Nuclear physicist.
Places
Birth
Undergraduate Education
Graduate Education
Employment
Death
Subjects
Relationships
People
Family
Wife. Awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Becquerel "in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel."
Son-in-law, married to daughter, Irene.
Daughter.
Langevin-Joliot, Helene, 1927-
Granddaughter.
Advisors & Collaborators
Awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics along with M. Curie "in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel."
Langevin, Paul, 1872-1946
Advised by Curie at École Normale Supérieure, Paris (ENS Paris).
Lippmann, M. (Gabriel), 1845-1921
Advisor at Paris-Sorbonne University.
Additional
Barbo, Loïc
Claude, Georges
Compton, K. T. (Karl Taylor), 1887-1954
Duane, William, 1872-1935
Huggins, William, Sir, 1824-1910
Jaffé, George Cecil
Kellogg, Charlotte
Kellogg, Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman), 1867-1937
Liveing, George Downing, 1827-1924.
Meloney, William Brown
Nix, Foster Cary, 1905-
Pflaum, Rosalynd
Radvanyi, P. (Pierre)
Thomson, J. J. (Joseph John), 1856-1940
Wood, Robert Williams, 1868-1955
Institutions
Major Positions
Universite de Paris IV: Paris-Sorbonne
Obtained Licenciateship (1878) and Doctorate in Science (1895). Demonstrator; Supervisor; Professor of Physics; Professor in the Faculty of Sciences; and Titular Professor.
Professional Activities & Affiliations
Royal Society (Great Britain)
Awarded 1903 Davy Medal with wife Marie Curie.
Resources
Archival Resources
Author
Pierre Curie papers, 1891-1906.
Départment des manuscrits
Bibliothèque nationale
Paris, France
Subject
9 letters, Upper Tulse Hill and the Athenaeum, London to G. D. Liveing/William Huggins. 1904-1906.
Library
Science Museum (Great Britain)
Imperial College Road, London SW7 5NH, England, UK
Curie and Joliot-Curie Archives, 1914-1958.
Association Frederic et Irene Joliot-Curie
11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75231 Paris CEDEX 05
George C. Jaffé papers, 1902-1962.
The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, 94720-6000, USA
Georges Claude papers.
In private hands
contact: Robert Boizard 33, avenue Montaigne, 75008 Paris, France
Marie Curie - A 150th Birthday Celebration [sound recording], 2017 March 16.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Foster Cary Nix, 1975 June 27.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Léon Brillouin, 1962 March 29 and 3 April.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Robert W. Wood papers, 1838-1942.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Stephen T. Lockwood, c.1874-1971 letters, 1902-1938.
Research Library, Archives
Buffalo Museum of Science
Humbolt Parkway, Buffalo, NY 14211, USA
William Duane correspondence with K. T. Compton, Marie and Pierre Curie, Max Planck, Ernest Rutherford, and J. J. Thomson, 1905-1933.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Published Resources
Author
Œuvres de Pierre Curie: publiées par les soins de la Société française de physique.
Subject
Analogies entre les principes de Carnot, Mayer & Curie/ par Paul Renaud …
Encyclopaedia Britannica - Pierre Curie.
Grand obsession: Madame Curie and her world/ Rosalynd Pflaum.
Les Curie: pionniers de l'atome/ Pierre Radvanyi.
Pierre Curie Nobel Prize biography.
Pierre Curie, 1859-1906: le rêve scientifique/ par Loïc Barbo.
Pierre Curie/ Anna Hurwic; préface de Pierre-Gilles de Gennes.
Radioactive : Marie & Pierre Curie, a tale of love and fallout / by Lauren Redniss.