Curie's Principle, or Curie's Symmetry Principle, is a maxim about cause and effect formulated by

Pierre Curie Pierre Curie ( , ; 15 May 1859 – 19 April 1906) was a French physicist, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity, and radioactivity. In 1903, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife, Marie Curie, and Henri Becqu ...

in 1894: "the symmetries of the causes are to be found in the effects". The idea was based on the ideas of

Franz Ernst Neumann Franz Ernst Neumann (11 September 1798 – 23 May 1895) was a German mineralogist, physicist and mathematician. Biography Neumann was born in Joachimsthal, Margraviate of Brandenburg, near Berlin. In 1815 he interrupted his studies at Berlin to ...

and B. Minnigerode. Thus, it is sometimes known as the Neuman–Minnigerode–Curie Principle.

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