Paul-Jacques Curie
French physicist (1855–1941) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jacques Curie (29 October 1855 – 19 February 1941) was a French physicist and professor of mineralogy at the University of Montpellier.[1] Along with his younger brother, Pierre Curie, he studied pyroelectricity in the 1880s, leading to their discovery of some of the mechanisms behind piezoelectricity.[2]
He is buried in the Saint-Lazare cemetery in Montpellier.