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Curie

cu·rie

UK/ˈkjʊə.ɹi/ US/ˈkjɔː.ɹi/ uncommon

noun

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

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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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Borrowed from French curie. Named after French physicist Pierre Curie (1859-1906).

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