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French physicist (1859–1906) best known for his pioneering investigation of radioactivity, who shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife, Marie Curie. ALS in French, signed “P. Curie,” one page, 5.5 x 3.5, postcard letterhead, November 15, 1903. Untranslated handwritten letter to Professor Carl Julius Salomonsen, known as the 'father of bacteriology in Denmark,' written just a few weeks before Curie was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. Curie replies to Salomonsen's inquiry about radium. In fine condition.
On December 10, 1903, shortly after writing this letter, Pierre and his wife, Marie Curie, were awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics in Stockholm, Sweden, '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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