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Pierre
Curie
1859—1906
French physicist
Educated at home
equivalent of a college degree
by age 18
Delayed doctoral studies
because of lack of funds
Pioneer in study of
crystallography
magnetism
piezoelectricity
radioactivity
Demonstrated that compressing crystals
gives electric potential
and crystals change in electric field
Basis of digital electronic circuits
using crystal oscillators
Designed and built torsion balance
for measuring magnetism
“Curie’s law”:
effect of temperature
on paramagnetism
“Curie point”:
temperature transition point
for magnetic behavior
With wife Marie
isolated polonium and radium
Discovered nuclear energy
emission of radiation
alpha, beta, gamma
Nobel Prize in physics 1903
with wife Marie
and Henri Becquerel
The curie, unit of radioactivity
named for him
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