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(s):curie, Ci
French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906) Synonym(s):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) Synonym(s):Curie, Marie Curie, Madame Curie, Marya Sklodowska