Who was born first, Marie Curie or Nikola Tesla?

Nikola Tesla was born first, in 1856. Marie Curie was born in 1867.

Marie Curie & Nikola Tesla

Did Marie Curie and Nikola Tesla live at the same time?

Yes. Marie Curie and Nikola Tesla lived at the same time for 67 years, from 1867 to 1934.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Marie Curie · Nikola Tesla · Born in 1867 · Born in 1856

Marie Curie

1867–1934

Science & Invention

Radioactivity, first woman Nobel laureate

Nikola Tesla

1856–1943

Science & Invention

AC electricity, visionary inventor

18561943

Marie Curie

Nikola Tesla

Marie Curie

Science & Invention

Born in Warsaw

Died in Sancellemoz

Nikola Tesla

Science & Invention

Born in Smiljan

Died in New York City

World Events During Their Overlap

1869 Suez Canal opens

1871 Unification of Germany

1876 Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone

1884 Berlin Conference partitions Africa

1893 New Zealand becomes first country to grant women's suffrage

1896 First modern Olympic Games in Athens

1898 Spanish-American War

1903 Wright brothers achieve powered flight

1905 Einstein publishes theory of special relativity

1912 Sinking of the Titanic

1914 World War I begins

1917 Russian Revolution

1918 World War I ends; Spanish flu pandemic begins

1919 Treaty of Versailles signed

1920 League of Nations established

1928 Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin

1929 Wall Street Crash; Great Depression begins

1933 Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

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Sources

Marie Curie — Wikipedia
Marie Curie (Q7186) — Wikidata
Nikola Tesla — Wikipedia
Nikola Tesla (Q9036) — Wikidata