The crossword solutions for the term CURIE refer to the famous French scientist family of the same name. Irene Curie was a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and the daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie, who were also Nobel Prize-winning scientists. EVE Curie was the daughter of Irene and Pierre Curie, and she was a journalist and author. Pierre Curie was a physicist and chemist who discovered the phenomenon of radioactivity, and he and his wife Marie discovered the elements polonium and radium. MADAME Curie was the nickname given to Marie Curie, who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.