Curie (disambiguation)
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The Curies were a family of distinguished scientists:
- Marie Curie (1867-1934), a Polish-French chemist, physicist, and double Nobel Prize winner
- Pierre Curie (1859-1906), Marie's husband, French physicist and Nobel Prize winner
- Irène Joliot-Curie (1897-1956), Marie and Pierre's daughter, a French physicist and Nobel Prize winner
- Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900-1958), Irène's husband, French physicist and Nobel Prize winner
- Eve Curie (b. 1904), Marie and Pierre's second daughter, a French-American writer and journalist
Things and ideas named after the Curies:
- Curie (Ci), a unit of radioactivity
- Curie point, the temperature above which a material loses its ferromagnetic ability
- Curie's law, which relates to the magnetization of material
- Curium (Cm), a synthetic element in the periodic table
- Curie Institute (Paris), a research foundation and cancer treatment center in Paris, France
- Curie Institute (Warsaw), a cancer research and treatment center in Warsaw, Poland
- Curie (lunar crater), a crater on the moon, much of which lies on the far side of the Moon
- French Submarine Curie, a submarine built in 1912 and scrapped in 1923
CURIE:
- CURIE, a syntax for Compact URIs.
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