CURIE

• (noun) French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes; one (with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and polonium (1867-1934)

  synonyms : madame curie , marie curie , marya sklodowska

• (noun) French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906)

  synonyms : pierre curie

• (noun) a unit of radioactivity equal to the amount of a radioactive isotope that decays at the rate of 37,000,000,000 disintegrations per second

  synonyms : ci

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