The Clue
Radium pioneer (5 letter answer)
The Answer
CURIE
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Notes
The answer CURIE is uncommon, appearing about once every 450 puzzles.
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Definition
CURIE as a noun:
1. (Curie, Marie Curie, Madame Curie, Marya Sklodowska) = 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)
2. (Curie, Pierre Curie) = French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906)
3. (curie, Ci) = 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