Curie

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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]