Title

Pierre Curie, French chemist, when Professor of Physics at the Sorbonne, 1906. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Pierre Curie, French chemist, in the lecture theatre when Professor of Physics at the Sorbonne, 1906. Curie (1859-1906) was awarded the Nobel prize for Physics in 1903, jointly with his wife, Marie, and Henri Becquerel, for their work on radioactivity.
Oxford Science Archive

Date

1906

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B64_269

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No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (1,4Mb) / 11,1in x 17,4in / 3341 x 5228 (300dpi)

Keywords

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