CURIE


Meaning of CURIE in English

/kyoor"ee, kyoo ree"/ ; Fr. /kyuu rddee"/ , n.

1. Irène Fr. /ee rdden"/ . See Joliot-Curie, Irène .

2. Marie /meuh ree"/ ; Fr. /mann rddee"/ , 1867-1934, Polish physicist and chemist in France: codiscoverer of radium 1898; Nobel prize for physics 1903, for chemistry 1911.

3. her husband, Pierre /pee air"/ ; Fr. /pyerdd/ , 1859-1906, French physicist and chemist: codiscoverer of radium; Nobel prize for physics 1903.

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .