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Marie Curie
Read the history of Marie Curie and her work with radium. Use the tabs above to read more about this scientist, her research, and her rewards.
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The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1910 Award Ceremony Speech
Here is the full text of the 1910 Nobel Prize in Physics presentation speech. given by Professor O. Montelius. It describes Johannes Diderik van der Waals' scientific contributions, which earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics.
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The Nobel Prize: Pierre Curie Biographical
Use this site to learn about Pierre Curie's (1859-1906 CE) work with radiation and contributions to the world of science, which earned him The Novel Prize in Physics, an award he shared with Henri Becquerel and Marie Curie.
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The Nobel Prize: Pierre Curie Nobel Lecture
At this site download and read Pierre Curies Nobel Lecture, "Radioactive substance, especially radium" (in pdf format).
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The Nobel Prize: Guglielmo Marconi Biographical
At this site from The Nobel Foundation you can read about the life and scientific work of Guglielmo Marconi. This man was recognized for his work in "the development of wireless telegraphy". He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in...
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Encyclopedia Britannica: Robert Hofstadter
Encyclopedia Britannica offers biographical information on Robert Hofstadter, Nobel Prize winner for his investigations on protons and neurons. Includes image.
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Magnet Academy: Felix Bloch (1905 1983)
Physicist Felix Bloch developed a non-destructive technique for precisely observing and measuring the magnetic properties of nuclear particles. He called his technique "nuclear induction," but nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) soon became...
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Magnet Academy: Murray Gell Mann
Murray Gell-Mann is a theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1969 for his contributions to elementary particle physics. He is particularly well known for his role in bringing organization into the world of subatomic...
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Magnet Academy: Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi was a titan of twentieth-century physics. He outlined the statistical laws that govern the behavior of particles that abide by the Pauli exclusion principle and developed a theoretical model of the atom in his mid-twenties....
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Magnet Academy: Lev Davidovich Landau
While growing up in the Soviet Union, Lev Landau was so far ahead of his classmates that he was ready to begin college at age 13. His parents noticed a particular gift for math in their young son, who was considered a prodigy. It came as...
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Magnet Academy: John Robert Schrieffer
While still in graduate school, John Robert Schrieffer developed with John Bardeen and Leon Cooper a theoretical explanation of superconductivity that garnered the trio the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1972. The BCS theory (the acronym...
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Magnet Academy: Edward Purcell
Edward Mills Purcell was an American physicist who received half of the 1952 Nobel Prize for Physics for his development of a new method of ascertaining the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei. Known as nuclear magnetic resonance...
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Famous Scientists: C. V. Raman
Learn about the Indian physicist who carried out ground-breaking work in the field of light scattering which earned him the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics.
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The Nobel Prize: Hans Bethe Biographical
A biography of Hans Bethe (1906-2005 CE), concentrating on his scientific research in nuclear physics.
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The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1901: William Conrad Rontgen
In 1901, Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen won the Nobel Prize for Physics because of his work with the x-ray. The site includes a picture of Rontgen along with biographical information, his Nobel lecture, and other resources, such as illustrated...
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The Nobel Prize: Marie Curie Biographical
This site from the Nobel eMuseum from the Nobel Foundation provides information for you to read about the life and scientific discoveries of Marie Curie (1867-1934 CE), whose work with radioactivity earned her two Nobel Prizes.