curie

Words with a similar base: curie

'curie'

[curie.n.01] as in: 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

'curie'

[curie.n.02] as in: French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906)

'curie'

[curie.n.03] as in: 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)