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QWhat was Pierre Curie's nationality at birth?

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  • A Belgian ✔ ✖
  • B Dutch ✔ ✖
  • C French ✔ ✖
  • D Polish ✔ ✖
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Pierre Curie ( 5 May 1859 – 19 April 1906) was a French physicist, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity and radioactivity. In 1903 he received the Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife, Marie Skłodowska-Curie, and Henri Becquerel, "in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel".

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