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 Curie (1867–1934), Polish-French chemist and physicist, two-time Nobel Prize winner
• Irène Joliot-Curie (1897–1956), French physicist and Nobel Prize winner, Marie and Pierre'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, Marie and Pierre'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