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

[ Syn: ci ]

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

[ Syn: curie , 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)

[ Syn: curie , marie curie , madame curie , marya sklodowska ]