Cu·rie (ky r  , ky-r, kü-) also Cu·rie-Jo·liot (-zhô-ly ), Irène See Irène Joliot-Curie. |
Curie, Marie Originally Manja Sk odowska. 1867-1934. Polish-born French chemist. She shared a 1903 Nobel Prize with her husband, Pierre Curie (1859-1906), and Henri Becquerel for fundamental research on radioactivity. In 1911 she won a second Nobel Prize for her discovery and study of radium and polonium. |
| cu·rie (kyr, ky-r) n. Abbr. Ci A unit of radioactivity, equal to the amount of a radioactive isotope that decays at the rate of 3.7 × 1010 disintegrations per second. [After Pierre Curie.] |
curie [ˈkjʊərɪ -riː]
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(Mathematics & Measurements / Units) a unit of radioactivity that is equal to 3.7 ✕ 1010 disintegrations per second. Symbol Ci
[named after Pierre Curie (1859-1906), French physicist and chemist]
Curie [ˈkjʊərɪ -riː (French) kyri]
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1. (Biographies / Curie, Marie (1867-1934) F, Frenchnational of birth: Polish, SCIENCE: physicist, SCIENCE: chemist) Marie (mari). 1867-1934, French physicist and chemist, born in Poland: discovered with her husband Pierre the radioactivity of thorium, and discovered and isolated radium and polonium. She shared a Nobel prize for physics (1903) with her husband and Henri Becquerel, and was awarded a Nobel prize for chemistry (1911)
2. (Biographies / Curie, Pierre (1859-1906) M, French, SCIENCE: physicist, SCIENCE: chemist) her husband, Pierre (pjɛr). 1859-1906, French physicist and chemist
| curie (kyr, ky-r) A unit used to measure the rate of radioactive decay. Radioactive decay is measured by the rate at which the atoms making up a radioactive substance are transformed into different atoms. One curie is equal to 37 billion (3.7 × 1010) of these transformations per second. Many scientists now measure radioactive decay in becquerels rather than curies. |
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| Noun | 1. | curie - 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 radioactivity unit - a measure of radioactivity millicurie - a unit of radioactivity equal to one thousandth of a curie |
| 2. | Curie - French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906) | |
| 3. |  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) |
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