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Curie

Curie Meaning & Definition
Curie Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Curie?

[n] 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)
[n] French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906)
[n] 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 | Synonyms for Curie: Ci | Madame Curie | Marie Curie | Marya Sklodowska | Pierre Curie

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See Also | chemist | millicurie | physicist | radioactivity unit

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