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