Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
. 2007 Apr;14(2):74-82.
doi: 10.3747/co.2007.110.

Pierre curie, 1859-1906

R F Mould

Pierre curie, 1859-1906

R F Mould. Curr Oncol. 2007 Apr.

Abstract

The year 2006 marked 100 years since the death of Pierre Curie. It is therefore appropriate that we remember his life and his work, which was cut short by his untimely death from an accident on the Pont Neuf, Paris, on April 19, 1906. He had already accomplished much during his life, both before the discovery of radium with Marie Curie, in work co-authored with his brother Jacques on piezoelectricity, and afterwards, when he published the results of several experimental studies with radium and radon. He came from a medical family, and his grandfather Pierre Curie was a famous homeopathic physician. He has, in print, unfairly been relegated to the background-his own scientific contributions having been overtaken by the fame of Marie Curie, probably because she outlived him by 28 years.

PubMed Disclaimer

Figures

FIGURE 1
FIGURE 1
Paul Curie from a lithograph by C. Graf in 1843.
FIGURE 2
FIGURE 2
The Curie family tree.
FIGURE 3
FIGURE 3
Advertisement for Tho-Radia face cream and powder.
FIGURE 4
FIGURE 4
Pierre Curie’s self-exposure radium burn. It was described as “Professor Curie’s arm, showing a scar resulting from a radium sore.”
FIGURE 5
FIGURE 5
Pierre and Marie Curie.
FIGURE 6
FIGURE 6
Pierre Curie teaching in 1904 at the Curie Laboratory, 12 rue Cuvier.
FIGURE 7
FIGURE 7
Schematic diagram of the experiment Pierre is performing in Figure 6 .
See this image and copyright information in PMC

References

    1. Curie M. Pierre Curie. Kellogg VL, Kellogg C, trans. New York: The Macmillan Company; 1923.
    1. Curie P. Œuvres de Pierre Curie. Publiées par les soins de la Société française de physique. Paris: Gauthier–Villars; 1908.
    1. Curie J, Curie P. Développement, par pression, de l’électricité polaire dans les cristaux hémièdres à faces inclinées. Comptes Rendus de l’Académie des Sciences. 1880;91:294–5.
    1. Curie J, Curie P. Sur l’électricité polaire dans les cristaux hémièdres à faces inclinées. C R Acad Sci Gen. 1880;91:383–6.
    1. Curie J, Curie P. Contractions et dilatations produites par des tensions dans les cristaux hémièdres à faces inclinées. C R Acad Sci Gen. 1880;93:1137–40.

LinkOut - more resources