Curie family facts for kids
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Pierre and Marie Curie in the laboratory
The Curies were a family of distinguished scientists:
- Marie Curie (1867-1934), a Polish-French chemist, physicist, and two time Nobel Prize winner
- Pierre Curie (1859-1906), Marie's husband, French physicist and Nobel Prize winner
- Irène Joliot-Curie (1897-1956), Marie and Pierre's daughter, French physicist and Nobel Prize winner
- Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900-1958), Irène's husband, French physicist and Nobel Prize winner
- Ève Curie (1904-2007), Marie and Pierre's second daughter, French-American writer and journalist
Things and ideas named after the Curies:
- Curie (unit) (Ci), a unit of radioactivity
- Curie point
- Curie's law
- Curium (Cm), a chemical element
- Curie (lunar crater)
- Curie Institute (Paris)
- Curie Institute (Warsaw)
- Curie (Q 87), a French submarine in the First World War
- French submarine Curie (P67), a French submarine in the Second World War
Family Genealogy
Paul Curie (1799–1853), physician, humanist
x Augustine Hofer (1805–1883), a descendant of the famous scholar and mathematician Johann Bernoulli (1667–1748).
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- Eugene Curie (1827–1910), doctor
x Sophie-Claire Depouilly (1832-1897).- Paul-Jacques Curie] (1855–1941), physicist
x Marie Masson (1856–1945).- Maurice Curie (1888–1975), physicist.
- Daniel Curie (1927-2000), physicist.
- Maurice Curie (1888–1975), physicist.
- Pierre Curie (1859–1906), physicist, Nobel Prize in 1903.
x Marie Skłodowska Curie (1867–1934), physicist, chemist, Nobel Prize in 1903 and in 1911.- Irène Joliot-Curie (1897–1956), physicist, Nobel Prize in 1935
x Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900–1958), physicist, Nobel Prize in 1935.- Pierre Joliot-Curie (1932), biologist
x Anne Gricouroff, biologist, daughter of Georges Gricouroff and Colette Rodet.- Marc Joliot (1962), neuroscientist.
- Alain Joliot (1964), biologist.
- Hélène Langevin-Joliot (1927), nuclear physicist
x Michel Langevin (1926–1985), physicist, son of André Langevin and Luce Dubus, grandson of Paul Langevin and Jeanne Desfosses.- Françoise Langevin-Mijangos x Christian Mijangos.
- Yves Langevin (1951), astrophysicist
- Pierre Joliot-Curie (1932), biologist
- Ève Curie (1904–2007), writer, journalist, pianist
x Henry Richardson Labouisse Jr. (1904–1987), American diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of UNICEF in 1965.
- Irène Joliot-Curie (1897–1956), physicist, Nobel Prize in 1935
- Paul-Jacques Curie] (1855–1941), physicist
- Eugene Curie (1827–1910), doctor
See also
In Spanish: Familia Curie para niños
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