Pierre Curie Quotes


It would be a fine thing, in which I hardly dare believe, to pass our lives near each other, hypnotized by our dreams.


Citations

Curie, Pierre. Letter to Marie Sklodowska, 10 Aug. 1894. Madame Curie: A Biography, by Eve Curie, translated by Vincent Sheean, Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1937, p. 117.

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Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie
  • Born: May 15, 1859
  • Died: April 19, 1906
  • Nationality: French
  • Profession: Scientist

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 (née Skłodowska), 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".