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English → English (WordNet) Definition: Curie Curie n 1: 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: Marie Curie, Madame Curie , Marya Sklodowska] 2: French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906) [syn: Pierre Curie ] 3: 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: Ci]