The curie (symbol Ci) is a non-SI unit of radioactivity originally defined in 1910. According to a notice in Nature at the time, it was to be named in...
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director of UNICEF, Ève's husband Curie (unit) (Ci), unit of radioactivity Curie (lunar crater) Curie (Martian crater) Curie (rocket engine), a liquid-propellant...
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Pierre Curie (/ˈkjʊəri/ KURE-ee; French: [pjɛʁ kyʁi]; 15 May 1859 – 19 April 1906) was a French physicist and a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism...
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Skłodowska-Curie (Polish: [ˈmarja salɔˈmɛa skwɔˈdɔfska kʲiˈri] ; née Skłodowska; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), known simply as Marie Curie (/ˈkjʊəri/...
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Becquerel (redirect from Becquerel (unit))
of the unit are commonly used. The becquerel is named after Henri Becquerel, who shared a Nobel Prize in Physics with Pierre and Marie Curie in 1903...
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and non-SI units: Becquerel Curie (unit) Radiation Gray (unit) Roentgen (unit) Roentgen equivalent man (rem) Sievert Order of magnitude (unit) International...
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In physics and materials science, the Curie temperature (TC), or Curie point, is the temperature above which certain materials lose their permanent magnetic...
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degeneracy between two electronic states Curie (unit) (Symbol: Ci), a measurement of radioactivity named after Marie Curie Copenhagen interpretation, an interpretation...
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Marie Curie is a registered charitable organisation in the United Kingdom which provides hospice care and support for anyone with an illness they are...
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In magnetism, the Curie–Weiss law describes the magnetic susceptibility χ of a ferromagnet in the paramagnetic region above the Curie temperature: χ =...
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other radiology units) with SI units since 1969. However, the only related CIPM decision shown in the appendix are with regards to the curie in 1964. The...
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{\displaystyle C} is a material-specific Curie constant (K). Pierre Curie discovered this relation, now known as Curie's law, by fitting data from experiment...
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The gray (symbol: Gy) is the unit of ionizing radiation dose in the International System of Units (SI), defined as the absorption of one joule of radiation...
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(cM), recombination frequency – Thomas Hunt Morgan curie (Ci), radioactivity – Marie and Pierre Curie dalton (Da), atomic mass – John Dalton darcy (D),...
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Institut Curie is member of EU-LIFE, an alliance of leading life sciences research centres in Europe. The institute now operates several research units in cooperation...
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Roentgen equivalent man (redirect from Rem (unit))
permits the use of the units curie, rad, and rem alongside SI units. The following table shows radiation quantities in SI and non-SI units: Roentgen equivalent...
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direct piezoelectric effect was in 1880 by the brothers Pierre Curie and Jacques Curie. They combined their knowledge of pyroelectricity with their understanding...
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Curie is the codename for a GPU microarchitecture developed by Nvidia, and released in 2004, as the successor to the Rankine microarchitecture. It was...
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Radioactive (film) (category Cultural depictions of Pierre Curie)
starring Rosamund Pike as Marie Curie. The film is based on the 2010 graphic novel Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout by the...
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becquerel per kilogram (Bq/kg), but another commonly used unit of specific activity is the curie per gram (Ci/g). In the context of radioactivity, activity...
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since 1901 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. These are: 1903 Marie Curie: "in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their...
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one microrutherford. One rutherford is equivalent to 2.703 × 10−5 curie. The unit was introduced in 1946. It was named after British/New Zealand physicist...
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incidents and accidents. Note: As incident reporting has used inconsistent units of measurement, here are the conversion factors; metric prefixes are used...
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Sojourner (rover) (redirect from Marie Curie (rover))
planned to send Marie Curie on the canceled Mars Surveyor 2001 mission; it was suggested to send it in 2003, proposing Marie Curie to be deployed "using...
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Paramagnetism (section Curie's law)
behavior can also be observed in ferromagnetic materials that are above their Curie temperature, and in antiferromagnets above their Néel temperature. At these...
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Radium (category Marie Curie)
Belgium from 1922 up until World War II. The general historical unit for radioactivity, the curie, is based on the radioactivity of 226Ra. it was originally...
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Sievert (redirect from Sievert (unit))
and non-SI units: Although the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission permits the use of the units curie, rad, and rem alongside SI units, the European...
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Direct3D 9.0c and OpenGL 2.1 Curie (microarchitecture) 1 Pixel shaders: vertex shaders: texture mapping units: render output units The GeForce Go 7 series...
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While the International System of Units (SI) is used throughout the world in all fields, many non-SI units continue to be used in the scientific, technical...
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first woman to become a professor at the Sorbonne. Marie Curie and her husband Pierre Curie are considered the founders of the modern-day Faculty of Science...
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