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CurieThe group "Curie" is named after the French-Polish chemist/physicist Marie Curie (1867-1934), recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics 1903 (with Pierre Curie) "in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel" and Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1911 "in recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element".
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