Curie may refer to:
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Curie family
The Curie family is a French family with a number of illustrious scientists. Several members were awarded the Nobel Prize, including physics, chemistry, or the Nobel Peace Prize. Pierre Curie, his Polish-born wife Marie Curie, their daughter, Ir ...
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Jacques Curie (1856–1941), French physicist, Pierre's brother
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Pierre Curie (1859–1906), French physicist and Nobel Prize winner, Marie's husband
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Marie Skłodowska–Curie (1867–1934), Polish chemist and physicist, two-time Nobel Prize winner, Pierre's wife
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Irène Joliot-Curie (1897–1956), French physicist and Nobel Prize winner, Pierre and Marie's daughter
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Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900–1958), French physicist and Nobel Prize winner, Irène's husband
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Ève Curie
Ève Denise Curie Labouisse (; December 6, 1904 – October 22, 2007) was a French and American writer, journalist and pianist. Ève Curie was the younger daughter of Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie. Her sister was Irène Joliot-Curie a ...
(1904–2007), French-American journalist and pianist, Pierre and Marie's daughter
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Henry Richardson Labouisse
Henry Richardson Labouisse Jr. (February 11, 1904 – March 25, 1987) was an American diplomat and statesman. He was the third Director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) from 1954 to ...
(1904–1987), American diplomat and director of UNICEF, Ève's husband
Things and ideas named after the Curie family
Scientific concepts, inventions and discoveries
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Curie (unit) (Ci), unit of radioactivity
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Curie (lunar crater)
Curie is a large lunar impact crater, much of which lies on the far side of the Moon as seen from the Earth. The western rim projects into the near side of the Moon, as defined by the selenographic coordinate system. However the visibility of this ...
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Curie (Martian crater)
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Curie (rocket engine), a liquid-propellant engine designed by Rocket Lab
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Curie temperature, also known as the Curie point
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Curie's law
For many paramagnetic materials, the magnetization of the material is directly proportional to an applied magnetic field, for sufficiently high temperatures and small fields. However, if the material is heated, this proportionality is reduced. For ...
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Intel Curie
Intel Quark is a line of 32-bit x86 SoCs and microcontrollers by Intel, designed for small size and low power consumption, and targeted at new markets including wearable devices. The line was introduced at Intel Developer Forum in 2013, and di ...
, a sub-miniature x86/Quark-based platform for wearable applications
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Curium
Curium is a transuranic, radioactive chemical element with the symbol Cm and atomic number 96. This actinide element was named after eminent scientists Marie and Pierre Curie, both known for their research on radioactivity. Curium was first inte ...
, a synthetic chemical element with atomic number 96
Institutions
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Curie Institute (Paris)
Centre of protontherapy
Institut Curie is one of the leading medical, biological and biophysical research centres in the world.
It is a private non-profit foundation operating a research center on biophysics, cell biology and oncology and a ho ...
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Curie Institute (Warsaw)
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Curie Metropolitan High School
Marie Sklodowska Curie Metropolitan High School is a public 4–year magnet high school located in the Archer Heights neighborhood on the southwest side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Curie is operated by Chicago Public Schools district. Th ...
, a secondary school in Chicago
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Pierre and Marie Curie University
Pierre and Marie Curie University (french: link=no, Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, UPMC), also known as Paris 6, was a public university, public research university in Paris, France, from 1971 to 2017. The university was located on the Jussi ...
, Paris
Military vessels
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French submarine ''Curie'' (Q 87), a French submarine in the First World War
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French submarine ''Curie'' (P67), a French submarine in the Second World War
CURIE
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CURIE
In computing, a CURIE (or ''Compact URI'') defines a generic, abbreviated syntax for expressing Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs). It is an abbreviated URI expressed in a compact syntax, and may be found in both XML and non-XML grammars. A CURIE ...
, a syntax for Compact URIs
See also
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Currie (disambiguation) Currie is a suburb of Edinburgh.
Currie may also refer to:
Surname
* Currie (surname), people with the surname ''Currie''
Places Australia
* Curramulka, South Australia, nicknamed "the Currie"
* Currie, Tasmania, the largest settlement on King ...
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Curry (disambiguation)
Curry is a generic description for a variety of spiced dishes, especially from Asia.
Curry may also refer to:
Places United States
* Curry, Pike County, Alabama, an unincorporated community
* Curry, Talladega County, Alabama, an unincorporat ...
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Cury, a civil parish and village in southwest Cornwall, England
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