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a unit quantity of any radioactive nuclide in which 3.7 × 1010 disintegrations occur per second
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a unit of radioactivity equal to 3.7 × 1010 disintegrations per second
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Eve 1904—2007 daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie American (French-born) author
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Marie 1867—1934 néeMaria Skłodowska French (Polish-born) chemist
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Pierre 1859—1906 husband of Marie Curie French chemist
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the temperature at which there is a transition between the ferromagnetic and paramagnetic phases
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a temperature at which the anomalies that characterize a ferroelectric substance disappear —called also Curie temperature
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(Jean-) Frédéric 1900—1958 originally surname Joliot French physicist
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Irène 1897—1956 formerly Irène Curie-Joliot, daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie and wife of Frédéric Joliot-Curie French physicist