Curie Island
Island in Adélie Land, Antarctica
66°39′S 140°3′E / 66.650°S 140.050°E / -66.650; 140.050
Curie Island is a small rocky island near the eastern end of the Géologie Archipelago, lying 2 kilometres (1 nmi) southwest of Derby Island, close north of Astrolabe Glacier Tongue. It was photographed from the air by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946–47. It was charted by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1949–51, and named by them for the noted French family of physicists and chemists: Pierre Curie and Marie Curie.[1]
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References
- ^ "Curie Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 10 December 2011.
This article incorporates public domain material from "Curie Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
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Marie and Pierre Curie
- Curie's law
- Curie–Weiss law
- Curie temperature
- Mean-field theory
- Piezoelectricity
- Polonium
- Radioactivity
- Radium
- Irène Joliot-Curie (daughter)
- Ève Curie (daughter)
- Hélène Langevin-Joliot (granddaughter)
- Pierre Joliot (grandson)
- Paul-Jacques Curie (Pierre's brother)
- Frédéric Joliot-Curie (son-in-law)
- Marie Curie Monument
- Marie Curie Gargoyle
- Maria Skłodowska-Curie Medallion
- Madame Curie (1943 film)
- Les Palmes de M. Schutz (1997 film)
- Marie Curie, une femme sur le front (2014 film)
- Marie Curie: The Courage of Knowledge (2016 film)
- Radioactive (2019 film)
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