12th UNICA EU RESEARCH LIAISON OFFICERS MEETING · Maria Skłodowska Curie with Albert Einstein and...
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Celebration of Marie Skłodowska Curie's 150th birthday
7.11.1867-7.11.2017
12th UNICA EU RESEARCH LIAISON OFFICERS MEETING
Diana Pustuła, University of Warsaw
Brussels, 7.11.2017
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„I was born in Warsaw”
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Family
Władysław Skłodowski and Maria, Bronisława, Helena,
1890
Mother Bronisława (Bogucka) from
the noble family ( family of Topór coat
of arms).
She was a teacher and an owner of
the girls'boarding school at 16 Freta
street (died 1878)
Father Władysław Skłodowski (family
of Dołęga coat of arms) taught
physics and mathematics at high
schools.
Sisters:
Zofia (who died early),
Bronisława (doctor) founder of
sanatorium for the sick with
tuberculosis in Zakopane),
Helen (later named Szalay, teacher).
Brother Józef (doctor, a head of
hospital department in Warsaw),
http://en.muzeum-msc.pl/maria-sklodowska-curie
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1891 she went to Paris to study
at Sorbonne at the age of 24
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In 1895, she married a great French physicist - Pierre Curie
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The Curie's investigation
of the radiations of
uranium led in 1898 to
the discovery of two
highly radioactive new
chemical elements,
polonium and radium.
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1903 she received Nobel prize in physics
with her husband Pierre Curie (radioactivity)
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Children
The first daughter Irene (born in 1897), became a scientist as well.
In 1935, she received with her husband Frideric Joliot Curie a Nobel prize for discovery of artificial radioactivity.
The second daughter came into the world seven years later, Eve was a pianist, an author of Maria Skłodowska-Curie's biography and a war correspondent.
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She was the first woman who received Nobel prize and
the only person who got two Nobel prizes in the two different research fields.
Maria became the first woman a professor at Sorbonne university
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Maria Skłodowska Curie with Albert Einstein and other scientists in the international Solvay Institute (fot. arch.PAP/Benjamin Couprie)
Died at the age of 67 on 4.07.1934.
After her death, A. Einstein wrote in his essay about Marie Skłodowska-Curie: ” She was the only person, not spoiled by fame, among
these who I met”.
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In 1911, she received a Nobel prize for chemistry for her work on the
isolation of metallic radium
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