curie

A unit of radioactivity, equal to the amount of a radioactive isotope that decays at the rate of 3.7 × 10¹⁰ disintegrations per second.

See Irène Joliot-Curie.

Polish-born French chemist. She shared a 1903 Nobel Prize with her husband, Pierre Curie (1859-1906), and Henri Becquerel for fundamental research on radioactivity. In 1911 she won a second Nobel Prize for her discovery and study of radium and polonium.