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Curie may refer to: * Curie family, a family of distinguished scientists: :* Jacques Curie (1856–1941), French physicist, Pierre's brother :*
Pierre Curie Pierre Curie ( ; ; 15 May 1859 – 19 April 1906) was a French physicist, Radiochemistry, radiochemist, and a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity, and radioactivity. He shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife, ...
(1859–1906), French physicist and Nobel Prize winner, Marie's husband :*
Marie Skłodowska–Curie Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie (; ; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), known simply as Marie Curie ( ; ), was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was List of female ...
(1867–1934), Polish chemist and physicist, two-time Nobel Prize winner, Pierre's wife :* Irène Joliot-Curie (1897–1956), French physicist and Nobel Prize winner, Pierre and Marie's daughter :*
Frédéric Joliot-Curie Jean Frédéric Joliot-Curie (; ; 19 March 1900 – 14 August 1958) was a French chemist and physicist who received the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with his wife, Irène Joliot-Curie, for their discovery of induced radioactivity. They were t ...
(1900–1958), French physicist and Nobel Prize winner, Irène's husband :* Ève Curie (1904–2007), French-American journalist and pianist, Pierre and Marie's daughter :* Henry Richardson Labouisse (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) The curie (symbol Ci) is a non- SI unit of radioactivity originally defined in 1910. According to a notice in ''Nature'' at the time, it was to be named in honour of Pierre Curie, but was considered at least by some to be in honour of Marie Skł ...
(Ci), unit of radioactivity * Curie (lunar crater) * Curie (Martian crater) * Curie (rocket engine), a liquid-propellant engine designed by Rocket Lab * Curie temperature, also known as the Curie point * Curie's law * Intel Curie, a sub-miniature x86/Quark-based platform for wearable applications * Curium, a synthetic chemical element with atomic number 96


Institutions

* Curie Institute (Paris) * Curie Institute (Warsaw) * Curie Metropolitan High School, a secondary school in Chicago * Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris


Military vessels

* French submarine ''Curie'' (Q 87), a French submarine in the First World War * French submarine ''Curie'' (P67), a French submarine in the Second World War


Technology

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Curie (microarchitecture) Curie is the codename for a GPU microarchitecture developed by Nvidia, and released in 2004, as the successor to the Rankine (microarchitecture), Rankine microarchitecture. It was named with reference to the Polish physicist Marie Curie, Marie S ...


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CURIE Curie may refer to: *Curie family, a family of distinguished scientists: :* Jacques Curie (1856–1941), French physicist, Pierre's brother :* Pierre Curie (1859–1906), French physicist and Nobel Prize winner, Marie's husband :* Marie Curi ...
, a syntax for Compact URIs


See also

* Currie (disambiguation) * Curry (disambiguation) *
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