DIY Cards
Pierre Curie
PhysicistCreated by Ameer, Lucas, Sean POINTS
French
Awards: Davy Medal (1903), Nobel Prize in Physics (1903), Matteucci Medal (1904), Elliott Cresson Medal (1909)
Helped pioneer research on radioactivity
Won nobel prize in physics with his wife, Marie Curie, and Henri Becquerel
Marie Curie
Physicist, ChemistCreated by Ameer, Lucas, Sean POINTS
Polish, lived in France
Awards: Nobel Prize in Physics (1903), Davy Medal (1903), Matteucci Medal (1904), Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1911)
Discovered polonium and radium
Pioneered research on radioactivity
Found a way to isolate radioactive isotopes
Frederic Joliot-Curie
PhysicistCreated by Ameer, Lucas, Sean POINTS
French
Awards: Nobel prize for chemistry 1935, hughes medal 1947, ForMemRS 1946
Discovered artificial radioactivity with his wife
Assistant to marie curie
Husband to Irene Joliot-Curie
Irene Joliot-Curie
ChemistCreated by Ameer, Lucas, Sean POINTS
French and of Polish descent
Awards: Nobel prize for chemistry 1935
Discovered artificial radioactivity with her husband Frederic Curie
Pierre and Marie curie’s daughter
James Chadwick
PhysicistCreated by Ameer, Lucas, Sean POINTS
British
Discovered the neutron as well as its mass
Studied under Rutherford
Awards: Fellow of the Royal Society (1927), Hughes Medal (1932), Mackenzie-Davidson Medal (1932), Nobel Prize in Physics (1935), Knight Bachelor (1945), Melchett Medal (1946)
Ernest Rutherford
PhysicistCreated by Ameer, Lucas, Sean POINTS
Born in New Zealand, lived in Britain
Considered father of nuclear chemistry
Trained under rutherford, believed in plum pudding model at first
Awards: Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1908),
Discovered alpha, beta, and gamma particles
Discovered nucleus