Career
Consequently, and until the discovery of the quark structure of hadrons, the neutron was assumed to be an elementary particle. His Kurie plot is used in the study of beta decay. Kurie earned his Bachelor of Science at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, in 1927 and his Doctor of Philosophy at Yale in 1932.
He then worked with Ernest Lawrence at the new Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California before taking up an assistant professorship at Indiana University Bloomington.
He spent World World War II working at the United States Navy Radio and Sound Laboratory in San Diego, and after holding postwar positions at Washington University in Saint Louis and the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, District of Columbia, he returned to San Diego as technical director of what had by then been renamed the United States Navy Electronics Laboratory. He continued to head the San Diego laboratory until he was debilitated by a serious stroke in 1960.