curie meaning and definition

CURIE noun

Definition of curie (noun)

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
   • synonyms: Ci
2. French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906)
   • synonyms: 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)
   • synonyms: Madame Curie, Marie Curie, Marya Sklodowska