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.

synonym: Ci.

Dutch: curie
Polish: kiur, Ci

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

synonym: 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).

synonyms: Madame Curie, Marie Curie, Marya Sklodowska.

Polish: Maria Skłodowska-Curie, Skłodowska-Curie, Skłodowska