Hypertext Webster Gateway: "curie"
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Curie
n 1: 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}]
2: French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906) [syn: {Curie},
{Pierre Curie}]
3: 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}]
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