"If it is true that one is seriously thinking about me (for the Prize), I very much wish to be considered together with Madame Curie with respect to our research on radioactive bodies."
In a letter in 1903, several members of the l'Académie des Sciences, including Henri Poincaré and Gaston Darboux, had nominated Becquerel and Pierre Curie for the Prize in Physics. Marie's name was not mentioned.
This caused Gösta Mittag-Leffler, a professor of mathematics at Stockholm University College, to write to Pierre Curie. That letter has not survived but Pierre Curie's answer, dated on 6 August, 1903, has been preserved. The quote above is an extract from Pierre Curie's letter.
The 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Antoine Henri Becquerel, Pierre Curie (pictured left) and Marie Curie, née Sklodowska (pictured right).
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Pierre Curie was the love of Curie's life and her partner in science. They met in 1894 when Marie Curie worked in Pierre Curie's lab; they were married the following year. [Pierre] had dedicated his life to his dream of science: he felt the need of a companion who could live his dream with him.
Discovered: Polonium, Radium
Born: 1867, Warsaw
Advisors: Henri Becquerel
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