Marie & Pierre Cure and Henri Becquerel

all 3 won the Nobel Prize in the year:

1903

Marie Curie discovered these 2 elements:

Radium; Polonium

Becquerel studied Phosphorescence, which was...

a type of photoluminescence related to fluorescence-->unlike fluorescence, a phosphorescent material does not immediately re-emit the radiation it absorbs

3 types of radiation

alpha, beta, gamma

Piezoelectricity

discovered in 1880 by Pierre and Paul-Jacques Curie--> found that when they compressed certain types of crystals including quartz, tourmaline, and Rochelle salt, along certain axes, a voltage was produced on the surface of the crystal

Radioactivity

process whereby unstable atomic nuclei release energetic subatomic particles (alpha, beta and gamma), studies by Marie, Pierre and Henri led to this discovery

Henri Becquerel

was a French physicist who discovered radioactivity through his experiments and investigations of uranium and other substances

Pierre Curie

was a French physicist, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity and radioactivity, and Nobel Prize winner, along with his wife, Marie Curie

Wilhelm Roentgen

was a German physicist who produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today known as X-rays-->greatly influenced the studies of Marie, Pierre and Henri

Marie Curie

was born in Warsaw, Poland, she was a French physicist and chemist famous for her work on radioactivity-->1st person to be honored with 2 Nobel Peace Prizes