Etymology

Curie's law

Today it means: A law which shows that the magnetic susceptibility of a paramagnetic dipole is inversely proportional to the absolute temperature; the basis of operation of magnetic thermometers. Full definition →

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The story

After Pierre Curie, French physicist.

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