Pierre Curie, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Pierre Curie

French physicist

Date of Birth: 15-May-1859

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 19-Apr-1906

Profession: physicist, chemist, university teacher, nuclear physicist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Pierre Curie (, KEWR-ee; French: [pj?? ky?i]; 15 May 1859 – 19 April 1906) 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 Sklodowska-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".