Curie Common

Curie has 5 different meanings across 2 categories:

Definitions

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

curie Ci

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

Curie Pierre Curie

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)

Curie Marie Curie Madame Curie Marya Sklodowska

3.7×10¹⁰ decays per second, as a unit of radioactivity. Symbol Ci.

Proper Noun

A surname, from French, especially referring to Marie Curie and her husband Pierre Curie.