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.
- synonyms: Ci
- French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906.
- synonyms: 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: Marie Curie, Madame Curie, Marya Sklodowska
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