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