Curie
Curie may refer to:
- Curie family, a family of distinguished scientists:
| Jacques Curie | Pierre Curie | Marie Skłodowska–Curie | |||||||||||||||||||
| Frédéric Joliot-Curie | Irène Joliot-Curie | Ève Curie | |||||||||||||||||||
- Jacques Curie (1856–1941), French physicist, Pierre's brother
- Pierre Curie (1859–1906), French physicist and Nobel Prize winner, Marie's husband
- Marie Skłodowska–Curie (1867–1934), Polish-French 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 (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
- Curie (unit) (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
CURIE
- CURIE, a syntax for Compact URIs
See also
- Currie (disambiguation)
- Curry (disambiguation)
- Cury, a civil parish and village in southwest Cornwall, England
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