Pierre Curie Bio

Pierre Curie was a French physicist and Nobel laureate.

May 15, 1859 in Paris, France

April 19, 1906 in Paris, France

Pierre Curie and his wife Marie shared half the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics for their research into radiation. They also discovered the elements radium and polonium. He also co-discovered the piezoelectric effect with his brother Jacques where compressed crystals give off an electric field.