 of the reason we called it Curie. Yeah what does that mean? What does Curie mean? It's named after Marie Curie who was a famous physicist and chemist from the 1800s. I actually did a book report on her in fifth grade and she stuck with me because she was a trailblazer. She was you know 1800s women were not even getting an education and she was a PhD, ran her own lab, made some discoveries that led to chemotherapy x-rays, some really groundbreaking scientific discoveries. First woman to win the Nobel Prize, only person ever to win it twice.