1. (

• curie ,
• Ci

) 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 ;

2. (

• Curie ,
• Pierre_Curie

) French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906) ;

3. (

• Curie ,
• Marie_Curie ,
• Madame_Curie ,
• Marya_Sklodowska

) 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) ;