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07.11.2007, 140th anniversary of Marie Sklodowska-Curie birth

Z okazji 140-tej rocznicy urodzin Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie w Instytucie Fizyki Jądrowej im.H.Niewodniczańskiego w Krakowie odbył sie wykład:

prof. dr hab. Antoniny Cebulskiej-Wasilewskiej "Znaczenie odkryc Marii Sklodowskiej- Curie dla rozwoju medycyny w 140 rocznicę Jej urodzin"

Maria Skłodowska-Curie (born November 7, 1867, died July 4, 1934) was a physicist and chemist of Polish. She was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity, the first twice-honored Nobel laureate and the first female professor at the University of Paris.

She was born in Warsaw, Congress Poland, and lived there until she was 24. In 1891 she followed her elder sister to study in Paris, where she obtained her higher degrees and conducted her scientific work. She founded the Curie Institutes in Paris and Warsaw. She was the wife of fellow-Nobel-laureate Pierre Curie and the mother of a third Nobel laureate, Irene Joliot-Curie. While an actively loyal French citizen, she never lost her sense of Polish identity. Madame Curie named the first new chemical element that she discovered polonium for her native country.


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