Pierre Curie (15 May 1859 – 19 April 1906) is a French physicist, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity and radioactivity.

In 1903, he receives the Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife, Marie Salomea Skłodowska-Curie, and Henri Becquerel, "in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel".