Curie (Noun)
Meaning 1
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).
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Meaning 2
French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906).
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Meaning 3
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.
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