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Meaning & Definition of Curie in English

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Curie

/kjʊri/

noun

1. 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

synonym:
  • curie,
  • Ci

2. French physicist

  • Husband of marie curie (1859-1906)
synonym:
  • Curie,
  • Pierre Curie

3. 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)
synonym:
  • Curie,
  • Marie Curie,
  • Madame Curie,
  • Marya Sklodowska