Curie

The curie (Ci) is the old unit of activity (A) and equal to the activity of 1 gram of ²²⁶Ra. The unit is named after the Polish-French physicist and chemist Maria Salomea Skłodowska (1867 - 1934) and her husband, the French physicist and chemist Pierre Curie (1859 - 1906).

1 Ci = 3.7·10¹⁰ Bq

Related unit

• becquerel