curie

Curie has 2 syllables: cu · rie.

noun. A unit of radioactivity equal to the amount of a radioactive isotope that decays at the rate of 37,000,000,000 disintegrations per second.

noun. French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906).

noun. French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes; one (with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and polonium (1867-1934).