Professor Pierre Curie, c mid-20th century

Pierre Currie, born 15 May 1859, died 19 April 1906, was a French physicist, radiochemist, and known best for his work with his wife, fellow pioneer Marie Skłodowska-Curie. Curie won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics that he shared with Marie and Henri Becquerel for their work on radiation. Curie is known for the discovery of polonium and radium. Curie obtained his PhD from the University of Paris in 1895, then working there until his premature death in 1906. Curie married Marie in 1895, and they had two daughters. Curie was awarded with the Davy Medal (1903), the Matteucci Medal (1904), and posthumously Elliott Cresson Medal (1909). Curie died due to a horse-drawn cart street collision, after he slipped in the rain on Rue Dauphine and fell under the cart. Curie and his family are enshrined in a crypt in the Pantheon in Paris.