Marie curie
[kyoo r-ee, kyoo-ree; French ky-ree] /ˈkyʊər i, kyʊˈri; French küˈri/
noun
1.
Irène
[French ee-ren] /French iˈrɛn/ (Show IPA), .
2.
Marie
[muh-ree;; French ma-ree] /məˈri;; French maˈri/ (Show IPA), 1867–1934, Polish physicist and chemist in France: codiscoverer of radium 1898; Nobel Prize in Physics 1903, for chemistry 1911.
3.
her husband, Pierre
[pee-air;; French pyer] /piˈɛər;; French pyɛr/ (Show IPA), 1859–1906, French physicist and chemist: codiscoverer of radium; Nobel Prize in Physics 1903.
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