What is "curies"

Usage examples of "curies".

By 1898, the year that the Curies discovered radium and polonium, I was an accomplished painter and my canvases were now the rage of Paris.

In 1903 the Curies and Becquerel were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in physics.

Whether, as Niebuhr maintains, all the free gentiles of the three tribes were called patres or patricians or whether the term was restricted to the heads of houses, it is certain that the head of the house represented it in the senate, and the vote in the curies was by houses, not by individuals en masse.