Curie, Marie and Pierre (1867-1934) and (1859-1906), French physicist, Nobel Prize winners.

Marie and Pierre Curie were married. In the framework of joint research, they found himicheskie elements radium and polonium, and investigated their radiation. This study was one of the foundations of modern nuclear physics.

Pierre Curie was born May 15, 1859 in Paris, he studied physics at the Sorbonne. In 1880, he studied with his brother Jacques electrical potential. The brothers opened a phenomenon pezoelektrichestva. Pierre Curie also discovered that the magnetic material (at a certain temperature (Curie point)) lose their magnetism.

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