List of Famous people with last name Curie

Marie Curie

Marya Salomea Skłodowska
First Name Marie
Last Name Curie
Born on November 7, 1867
Died on July 4, 1934 (aged 66)

Marie Skłodowska Curie, born Maria Salomea Skłodowska, was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. As the first of the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes, she was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and the only woman to win the Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win the Nobel Prize in two scientific fields. She was the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris in 1906.

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Ève Curie

First Name Ève
Last Name Curie
Born on December 6, 1904
Died on October 22, 2007 (aged 102)

Ève Denise Curie Labouisse was a French and American writer, journalist and pianist. Ève Curie was the younger daughter of Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie. Her sister was Irène Joliot-Curie and her brother-in-law Frédéric Joliot-Curie. She worked as a journalist and authored her mother's biography Madame Curie and a book of war reportage, Journey Among Warriors. From the 1960s she committed herself to work for UNICEF, providing help to children and mothers in developing countries. Ève was the only member of her family who did not choose a career as a scientist and did not win a Nobel Prize, although her husband, Henry Richardson Labouisse, Jr., did collect the Nobel Peace Prize in 1965 on behalf of UNICEF.

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Pierre Curie

First Name Pierre
Last Name Curie
Born on May 15, 1859
Died on April 19, 1906 (aged 46)

Pierre Curie was a French physicist, 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".

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Jacques Curie

First Name Jacques
Last Name Curie
Born on October 28, 1855
Died on February 19, 1941 (aged 85)

Paul-Jacques Curie was a French physicist and professor of mineralogy at the University of Montpellier. Along with his younger brother, Pierre Curie, he studied pyroelectricity in the 1880s, leading to their discovery of some of the mechanisms behind piezoelectricity.

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Eugène Curie

First Name Eugène
Born on August 28, 1827
Died on February 25, 1910 (aged 82)
Born in France, Grand Est
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Frédéric Curie

First Name Frédéric
Last Name Curie
Born on February 20, 1906
Died on December 16, 1956 (aged 50)
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