Maurice Curie (October 12, 1888 – September 2, 1975) was a French physicist and professor of physics at the Sorbonne, at the Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology.

Biography

Maurice was the son of Jacques Curie^[1] and the nephew of Pierre Curie.

He worked with Marie Curie in the Curie Laboratory from 1913–1914.^[2] He corresponded with her throughout the First World War, where he served twelve months at the front before 1917, mainly in the Verdun area.

Works

• Recherches sur la photoluminescence, Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 51 pages, 1923. - Thesis of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Paris, PhD in Physical Sciences.
• Le radium et les radio-éléments, coll. "Mining and Metallurgical Encyclopedia", Corbeil, Crete, and Paris, JB Baillière, 354 pages, 1925, preface by Marie Curie.
• Luminescence des corps solides, Fontenay-aux-Roses, Presses universitaires de France, 147 pages, 1934.
• Nécessaire mathématique (with M. Prost), coll. "Scientific and Industrial News", No. 502, Saint-Amand, Bussière, and Paris, Hermann et Cie, 116 pages, 1937.
• Fluorescence et phosphorescence, Paris, Hermann, 212 pages, 1946.
• Physique, Paris, C. Hermant, s.d., 2 volumes, 522 pages; reed., 1953.
• Questions actuelles en luminescence cristalline (with Daniel Curie), Paris, Editions of the "Journal of theoretical and instrumental optics", 86 pages, 1956.
• Précis de physique, Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 2 volumes: volume 1, 342 pages, 1961; volume 2, 312 pages, 1962.

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