Laureates

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The Nobel Prize in Physics
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Marie Sklodowska Curie
1867 - 1934

France

École municipale de physique et de chimie industrielles
Paris, France

Marie Curie was also awarded the 1911 Nobel Prize for chemistry for her discovery of radium and polonium.
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Pierre Curie
1859 - 1906

France

École municipale de physique et de chimie industrielles
Paris, France

Pierre Curie and Marie Curie shared the Nobel Prize for physics for their work on the phenomena of the radiation discovered by Becquerel.
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In 1903 Pierre found that 1 g of radium salts released 22,500 cal/h. In Stockholm, 42 years before Hiroshima, he said: "The question therefore arises whether it be to the advantage of humanity to know secrets of the nature.. I am among those who believe with Nobel that humanity will obtain more good than evil from future discoveries".

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