Pierre Curie

Physicist

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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


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Marie Curie

Physicist, Chemist

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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


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Frederic Joliot-Curie

Physicist

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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


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Irene Joliot-Curie

Chemist

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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


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James Chadwick

Physicist

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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)


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Ernest Rutherford

Physicist

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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


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