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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 ...
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.
Treatise on Radioactivity (French: Traité de Radioactivité) is a two-volume 1910 book written by the Polish scientist Marie Curie as a survey on the subject of radioactivity. [1] [2] [3] She was awarded her second Nobel Prize in the following year after the publication of the book. [4]
Irène Joliot-Curie (French: [iʁɛn ʒɔljo kyʁi] ⓘ; née Curie; 12 September 1897 – 17 March 1956) was a French chemist and physicist who received the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with her husband, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, for their discovery of induced radioactivity.
Seating chart: Charlotte Kellogg sits to left of Marie Curie at Radium Gifting Ceremony, 20 May 1921, East Wing of Warren G. Harding's White House. Marie Curie, having refused to patent her discovery of radium, struggled to raise funds to secure the costly element, in 1921 priced at some US $100,000 per gram. [13]
Ze Wspomnień o Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie Helena Skłodowska-Szalay (also known as Helena Szalayowa ; 20 April 1866, Warsaw — 6 February 1961) was a Polish educator, inspector of Warsaw schools, educational activist, and a member of the women's election committee of the Nation-State Union political party.
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.
The Maria Skłodowska-Curie Museum was established by the Polish Chemical Society in 1967, on the centenary of the birth of physicist-chemist Maria Skłodowska-Curie. Participants in the museum's inauguration included her younger daughter and biographer, Eve Curie Labouisse ; Eve's husband, the American politician and diplomat Henry Richardson ...