Jaks Prize
-1923 Nobel Prize in Physics for photoelectric effect and electron work
Jaks Education
-Elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of London
– Appointed to the Cavendish Professorship of Experimental Physics at the Cambridge University’s Cavendish Laboratory in 1884
Jaks Prize
-1903 won Nobel Prize in physics with husband and Henri Bequerel on joint research of Radiation
-1911 won Nobel Prize in chemistry for discovering Polonium and Radium
Jaks Education
-University of Paris studying Physics, Chemistry and Math
Jaks Theory
-discovered two elements – Polonium and Radium
-developed the theory of radioactivity
-discovered techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes
Jaks Education
-16, earned math degree
-18, completed higher degree
– couldn’t go to doctorate because not enough money to pay for it
Jaks Prize
– 1903 won Noble Prize in physics with wife and Henri Bequerel on joint research of Radiation
Jaks Theory
-Effect of temperature on paramagnetic known as Curie’s Law
-Material constant in Curie’s Law is the Curie Constant