15 Most Famous Atheist Nobel Prize Winners

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14. Pierre Curie

A French physicist who is perhaps less famous than his wife Marie Curie, Pierre and Marie won the Nobel Prize in physics along with Henri Becquerel for their research on radiation. Since the effects of radiation were not yet known, Pierre and Marie worked with radioactive substances without any protection whatsoever, and had Pierre not died due to an accident, he would likely have not lived a long life due to the level of exposure to radiation. Pierre did not believe in religion and his marriage to Marie was considered to be a secular one.

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