In 1903, Pierre Curie won the Physics Noble Prize.
Date of Birth: 15 May 1859.
Died: 19 April 1906.
Nationality: Hungarian, American.
Education: University of Paris.
Known as: Radioactivity, Curie’s law, Curie’s Principle, Curie constant, Curie temperature, Curie–Weiss law, Pioneering research on radioactivity, Discovering polonium and radium, Discovery of piezoelectricity Mean-field theory.
Awards: Davy Medal (1903), Nobel Prize in Physics (1903), Matteucci Medal (1904), Elliott Cresson Medal (1909) .
Fields: Physics, Chemistry.