– 1903 won Noble Prize in physics with wife and Henri Bequerel on joint research of Radiation

-Effect of temperature on paramagnetic known as Curie’s Law
-Material constant in Curie’s Law is the Curie Constant

Oberlin College and Columbia University

Used Oil drop experiment to measure the charge of an electron

-Established the periodic law, and created the early periodic table

-worked on the structure of the atom which led to the discovery of the neutron by Chadwick in 1935