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3 unusual facts about Pierre Curie


Arcueil

Pierre and Marie Curie installed at Arcueil an annex of the Institut du Radium for the chemical treatment of radioactive elements.

Pierre Curie

Crossing the busy Rue Dauphine in the rain at the Quai de Conti, he slipped and fell under a heavy horse-drawn cart.

Piezoelectric sensor

Although the piezoelectric effect was discovered by Pierre Curie in 1880, it was only in the 1950s that the piezoelectric effect started to be used for industrial sensing applications.


Brachytherapy

Brachytherapy dates back to 1901 (shortly after the discovery of radioactivity by Henri Becquerel in 1896) when Pierre Curie suggested to Henri-Alexandre Danlos that a radioactive source could be inserted into a tumour.

Curie Island

It was charted by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1949–51, and named by them for the noted French family of physicists and chemists: Pierre Curie and Marie Curie.

Georges Sagnac

He belonged to a group of friends and scientists that notably included Pierre and Marie Curie, Paul Langevin, Jean Perrin, and the mathematician Émile Borel.

Henry Richardson Labouisse, Jr.

The marriage with Ève has made him the son-in-law to Marie and Pierre Curie, Chemistry Nobel Prize winner.

Piezoelectric accelerometer

In 1880, Pierre and Jacques Curie published an experimental demonstration connecting mechanical stress and surface charge on a crystal.

Quartz clock

The piezoelectric properties of quartz were discovered by Jacques and Pierre Curie in 1880.


see also

Joliot

Irène Joliot-Curie (1897–1956), French radiochemist and Nobel laureate, daughter of Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie