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Contemporary Notables of the name Curie (post 1700) +

  • Marie Curie (1867-1934), French (Polish born) scientist best known for discovering radium and polonium and was the first person honored with two Nobel Prizes
  • Frédéric Joliot Curie (1900-1958), French physicist awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with his wife Irène
  • Irène Joliot Curie (1897-1956), French scientist awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with her husband Frédéric
  • Pierre Curie (1859-1906), French scientist awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife Marie


  1. Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)


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