curie

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curie - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  curie
      n 1: 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: curie,
           Ci]
      2: French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906) [syn:
         Curie, Pierre Curie]
      3: 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]