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The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions are among Europe's most competitive and prestigious research and innovation fellowships. [1] [2] Established in 1996 as Marie Curie Actions and known since 2014 as Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, they aim to foster the career development and further training of researchers at all career stages.
Marie Curie's birthplace, 16 Freta Street, Warsaw, Poland. Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie [a] (Polish: [ˈmarja salɔˈmɛa skwɔˈdɔfska kʲiˈri] ⓘ; née Skłodowska; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), known simply as Marie Curie (/ ˈ k j ʊər i / KURE-ee; [1] French: [maʁi kyʁi]), was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on ...
The location was chosen as a place Skłodowska-Curie liked to visit. The monument consists of a bronze statue depicting her in an oversized laboratory apron, stylized like a dress. In her right hand she holds a representation of polonium, in form of a small sphere with six rings orbiting it, and encased within a square frame.
The Curie family is a French-Polish family from which hailed a number of distinguished scientists. Polish-born Marie Skłodowska-Curie , her French husband Pierre Curie , their daughter, Irène Joliot-Curie , and son-in-law, Frédéric Joliot-Curie , are its most prominent members.
Pierre Curie and Marie Curie "For their researches on radium" [34] 1904: William Henry Perkin, Jr. "For his notable discoveries in organic chemistry" [21] 1905: Albert Ladenburg "For his researches in organic chemistry, especially in connection with the synthesis of natural alkaloids" [35] 1906: Rudolf Fittig
The winner receives a bronze medal depicting Marie Curie and on the reverse the Latin inscription Quo Magis Veritas Propagatur as well as the PTCHem logo, year and the name of the laureate. Four laureates of the medal have also been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry : Roald Hoffmann (1981), Jean Marie Lehn (1987), Ada Yonath (2009) and Ben ...
Fellowship of the Royal Society of Canada; Awarded for "Remarkable contributions in the arts, the humanities and the sciences, as well as in Canadian public life" [1] Sponsored by: Royal Society of Canada: Date: 1882 () Country: Canada: No. of fellows: 2,000+ (as of 2020) Website: rsc-src.ca
Bronisława Dłuska (Polish pronunciation: [brɔɲiˈswava ˈdwuska]; née Skłodowska; 28 March 1865 [1] – 15 April 1939) was a Polish physician, and co-founder and first director of Warsaw's Maria Skłodowska-Curie Institute of Oncology. She was married to political activist Kazimierz Dłuski, and was an older sister of physicist Marie Curie.