Sentence examples for curie from inspiring English sources
noun
3.7×1010 decays per second, as a unit of radioactivity. Symbol Ci.
In 1975 the becquerel replaced the curie as the official radiation unit in the International System of Units (SI).
At 49, earnest and nervous, a scientist and a mother, she brought to mind the pioneering heroism of a Madame Curie, the dogged faith of a Joan of Arc.
His hero is Madame Curie.
In July 1898, P. Curie and Mme.
Ferromagnetic materials change their magnetic ordering at a characteristic temperature Tc called the Curie temperature.
In 1959 he joined the staff of CERN European Organization for Nuclear Researchh) in Geneva and in 1984 also became Joliot-Curie professor at the School of Advanced Studies in Physics and Chemistry, Paris.
Ironically it was Irène Joliot-Curie, the daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie who first isolated polonium in 1898, who was the first to die because of exposure to it.
The state-run Marie Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, for instance, has 3,200 employees, only half of whom teach.
The results of these investigations, however, were extremely perplexing, and confusion persisted until 1939 when Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann in Germany, following a clue provided by Irène Joliot-Curie and Pavle Savić in France (1938), proved definitely that the so-called transuranic elements were in fact radioisotopes of barium, lanthanum, and other elements in the middle of the periodic table.
He received his doctorate in 1955 from the Collège de France, Paris, where he worked in the laboratory of Frédéric Joliot-Curie.
