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Pierre Curie

1859 - 1906

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Pierre Curie ( KURE-ee; French: [pjɛʁ kyʁi]; 15 May 1859 – 19 April 1906) was a French physicist and a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity and radioactivity. In 1903, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics with his 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". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre Curie has received more than 3,750,366 page views. His biography is available in 113 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 106 in 2019). Pierre Curie is the 10th most popular physicist, the 36th most popular biography from France and the most popular French Physicist.

Pierre Curie is most famous for his work with his wife, Marie Curie, in discovering the elements polonium and radium.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Pierre Curie ranks 10 out of 851. Before him are Wilhelm Röntgen, Stephen Hawking, Michael Faraday, Max Planck, Alessandro Volta, and Hans Christian Ørsted. After him are Ernest Rutherford, Niels Bohr, James Prescott Joule, Robert Hooke, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Werner Heisenberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, Pierre Curie ranks 2. Before him is Wilhelm II, German Emperor. After him are Arthur Conan Doyle, Henri Bergson, Knut Hamsun, L. L. Zamenhof, Edmund Husserl, John Dewey, Svante Arrhenius, Alfred Dreyfus, Georges Seurat, and Yuan Shikai. Among people deceased in 1906, Pierre Curie ranks 2. Before him is Paul Cézanne. After him are Henrik Ibsen, Christian IX of Denmark, Ludwig Boltzmann, Élie Ducommun, Archduke Otto of Austria, Susan B. Anthony, Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, Georgy Gapon, and Anton Arensky.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Curie ranks 36 out of 6,770. Before him are Napoleon III (1808), Édith Piaf (1915), Paul Gauguin (1848), Émile Durkheim (1858), Alexandre Dumas (1802), and Charles Baudelaire (1821). After him are Émile Zola (1840), Stendhal (1783), Gustave Flaubert (1821), Henry IV of France (1553), Simone de Beauvoir (1908), and Octave Mirbeau (1848).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Pierre Curie ranks 1. After him are Henri Becquerel (1852), André-Marie Ampère (1775), Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736), Henry Cavendish (1731), Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900), Léon Foucault (1819), Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis (1792), Louis de Broglie (1892), Hans Bethe (1906), Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870), and François Arago (1786).

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