Curie’s principle
Principio de Curie
- Date
- 1894 · confidence high
- Place
- Paris, France
- Credited to
- Pierre Curie
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
Maxim formulated by Pierre Curie stating that the symmetries of causes are found in their effects; a general principle used to predict which physical phenomena are possible in a given system.
What it led to
- General guide for symmetry analysis in physics
- Application to the study of piezoelectricity and other crystal effects
- Extension to the thermodynamics of irreversible processes