See also:

• PIERRE

PIERRE See also:

• PIERRE CURIE (1859-1906)

CURIE (1859-1906)  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French physicist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris on the 15th of May 1859, and was educated at the See also:

• SORBONNE

Sorbonne, where he subsequently became See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of physics . Although he had previously published meritorious researches on piezoelectricity, the magnetic properties of bodies at different temperatures, and other topics, he was chiefly known for his See also:

• WORK

work on See also:

• RADIUM (from Lat. radius, ray)

radium carried out jointly with his wife, See also:

• MARIE

Marie Sklodowska, who was born at See also:

• WARSAW
• WARSAW (Polish Warszawa, Ger. Warschau, Fr. Varsovie)

Warsaw on the 7th of See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1867 . After the See also:

• DISCOVERY

discovery of the radioactive properties of See also:

• URANIUM [symbol U, atomic weight 238.5 (0=16)]

uranium by See also:

• HENRI

Henri See also:

• BECQUEREL

Becquerel in 1896, it was noticed that some minerals of uranium, such as See also:

• PITCHBLENDE, or URANINITE

pitchblende, were more active than the See also:

• ELEMENT (Lat. elementum)

element itself, and this circumstance suggested that such minerals contained small quantities of some unknown substance or substances possessing radioactive properties in a very high degree . Acting on this surmise M. and Mme See also:

• CURIE, PIERRE (1859-1906)

Curie subjected a large amount of pitchblende to a laborious See also:

• PROCESS

process of fractionation, with the result that in 1898 they announced the existence in it of two highly radioactive substances, polonium and radium . In subsequent years they did much to elucidate the remarkable properties of these two substances, one of which, polonium, came to be regarded as one of the transformation-products of the other (see See also:

• RADIOACTIVITY

RADIOACTIVITY) . In 1903 they were awarded the See also:

• DAVY, SIR HUMPHRY

Davy See also:

• MEDAL (Fr. medaille, from Lat. metallum)

medal of the Royal Society in recognition of this work, and in the same See also:

• YEAR

year the See also:

• NOBEL, ALFRED BERNHARD (1833-1896)

Nobel See also:

• PRIZE, or PRIZE OF WAR (Fr. prise, from prendre, to take)

prize for physics was divided between them and Henri Becquerel . Professor Curie, who was elected to the See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy of Sciences in 1905, was run over by a dray and killed instantly in Paris on the 19th of See also:

• APRIL

April 1906 . His See also:

• ELDER (0. Eng. ellarn; Ger. Holunder; Fr. sureau)
• ELDER (Gr. 1rpev(3iTepos)

elder See also:

• BROTHER

brother, See also:

• PAUL
• PAUL (PAULUS)

PAUL . JACQUES CURIE, born at Paris on the 29th of See also:

• OCTOBER

October 1856, published an elaborate memoir on the specific inductive capacities of crystalline bodies (See also:

• ANN

Ann . Chim . Phys . 1889, 17 and 18) .