Historedia
Person

Jacques Curie

Events
1
Episodes
1
Years
1880

Every event in Historedia whose sources name Jacques Curie, with the role they cite and all of that event’s episodes. This is not a biography, and mentions are grouped by name, so two people with the same name can share this page.

Events and episodes

  1. Pierre and Jacques Curie discover piezoelectricity

    1880

    Role: French physicist and professor of mineralogy

    1. 1880 · ParisDemonstration of Direct Piezoelectric Effect

      Pierre and Jacques Curie demonstrated that compressing crystals generated an electric potential, establishing the direct piezoelectric effect.

Sources

  1. Jacques Curie Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-13
  2. Piezoelectricity Wikipedia, revision of 2026-10-05