Curie Definition & Meaning
curie
- 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
- French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906)
- 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" in song lyrics
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"pierre curie"
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