Pierre Curie

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French physicist academic human physicist

Pierre Curie was a pioneering French physicist best known for his work on radioactivity, crystallography, and magnetism, and as the husband and research partner of Marie Curie.

Aliases (1)

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Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	French physicist → academic → human → physicist →
academicDiscipline	experimental physics →
awardReceived	Davy Medal → Matteucci Medal → Nobel Prize in Physics →
birthDate	1859-05-15 →
birthPlace	Paris, France →
burialPlace	Panthéon, Paris →
causeOfDeath	road accident in Paris → traffic accident →
child	Irène Joliot-Curie → Ève Curie →
coDiscovered	polonium → radium →
countryOfCitizenship	France →
deathDate	1906-04-19 →
deathPlace	Paris, France →
educatedAt	Sorbonne University →
employer	Sorbonne University → University of Paris →
familyName	Curie →
fieldOfWork	crystallography → magnetism → physics → radioactivity →
givenName	Pierre →
influenced	Irène Joliot-Curie → Marie Curie →
knownFor	Curie law of magnetization → Curie point (Curie temperature) → development of sensitive electrometers → research on radioactivity → work on piezoelectricity →
name	Pierre Curie →
nobelPrizeCategory	Physics →
nobelPrizeSharedWith	Henri Becquerel → Marie Curie →
nobelPrizeYear	1903 →
notableStudent	Irène Joliot-Curie →
positionHeld	head of the physics laboratory at the Sorbonne → professor at the University of Paris →
religion	agnosticism →
researchPartner	Marie Curie →
sibling	Jacques Curie →
spouse	Marie Curie →
workLocation	Paris, France →

Referenced by (13)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Irène Joliot-Curie → Ève Curie →	father
Paul Langevin → Treatise on Radioactivity →	influencedBy
École de Physique et Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris →	alumnus
Pierre →	borneBy
Panthéon, Paris →	burialPlaceOf
Pierre Curie ("Curie") →	familyName
École de Physique et Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris →	hasNobelLaureate
Pierre Curie →	name
Marie Curie →	sharedNobelPrizeInPhysicsWith
Henri Becquerel →	sharedNobelPrizeWith
Marie Curie →	spouse