CURIE as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • 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)
   • Madame Curie (what does Madame Curie mean?)
   • Marie Curie (what does Marie Curie mean?)
   • Marya Sklodowska (what does Marya Sklodowska mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) Curie is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • chemist (what does chemist mean?)
2. Meaning
   • French physicist
   • husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906)
   Synonym(s)
   • Pierre Curie (what does Pierre Curie mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) Curie is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • physicist (what does physicist mean?)
3. Meaning
   • 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)
   • Ci (what does Ci mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) curie is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • radioactivity unit (what does radioactivity unit mean?)