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Curie family The Curie family is a French-Polish family from which hailed a number of distinguished scientists. Polish-born Marie Skłodowska-Curie, her French husband Pierre Curie, their daughter, Irène Joliot-Curie, and son-in-law, Frédéric Joliot-Curie ...

, a family of distinguished scientists: :*

Jacques Curie Jacques Curie (29 October 1855 – 19 February 1941) was a French physicist and professor of mineralogy at the University of Montpellier. Along with his younger brother, Pierre Curie, he studied pyroelectricity in the 1880s, leading to their d ...

(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 Irène Joliot-Curie (; ; 12 September 1897 – 17 March 1956) was a French chemist and physicist who received the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with her husband, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, for their discovery of induced radioactivity. They were ...

(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 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 :* 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

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 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 th ...

Curie (Martian crater) 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 Sk� ...

Curie (rocket engine) Curie is a liquid-propellant rocket engine designed and manufactured by Rocket Lab. A bipropellant is used for the propulsion of the third stage/kick stage of the Electron rocket, as well as the Photon. The composition of the propellant is a tra ...

, a liquid-propellant engine designed by Rocket Lab *

Curie temperature In physics and materials science, the Curie temperature (''T''C), or Curie point, is the temperature above which certain materials lose their permanent magnetic properties, which can (in most cases) be replaced by induced magnetism. The Curie ...

, also known as the Curie point *

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. Fo ...

* Intel Curie, a sub-miniature x86/Quark-based platform for wearable applications *

Curium Curium is a synthetic chemical element; it has symbol Cm and atomic number 96. This transuranic actinide element was named after eminent scientists Marie and Pierre Curie, both known for their research on radioactivity. Curium was first inten ...

, a synthetic chemical element with atomic number 96

Institutions

Curie Institute (Paris) Centre of protontherapy Institut Curie is a medical, biological and biophysical research centre in France. It is a private non-profit foundation operating a research center on biophysics, cell biology and oncology and a hospital specialized in ...

Curie Institute (Warsaw) Curie Institute may refer to: * Curie Institute (Paris) Centre of protontherapy Institut Curie is a medical, biological and biophysical research centre in France. It is a private non-profit foundation operating a research center on biophysics, ...

Curie Metropolitan High School Marie Sklodowska Curie Metropolitan High School is a public four-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. ...

, a secondary school in Chicago *

Pierre and Marie Curie University Pierre and Marie Curie University ( , UPMC), also known as Paris VI, was a public research university in Paris, France, from 1971 to 2017. The university was located on the Jussieu Campus in the Latin Quarter of the 5th arrondissement of Paris, ...

, 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

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 ...