Happy Birthday Pierre Curie

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Pierre Curie (photo from wikipedia)
... husband of Madam Dr. Maria Sklodowska-Curie, and famous scientist in his own right. Curie was an early explorer of the method of crystallography, and studied electromagnetic energy including "radioactivity."

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