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 07.11.2007, 140th birthday anniversary of
Marie Sklodowska-Curie, lecture of Prof. Antonina Cebulska-Wasilewska
The lecture was given at Niewodniczański Institute of Nuclear Physics, Krakow, on the occasion of the 140th Maria Sklodowska-Curie birth anniversary:
Prof. dr hab. Antonina Cebulska-Wasilewska "Znaczenie odkryć 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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Contact address:
Bureau of the ICRR2011 President and Congress Promotion
Antonina Cebulska - Wasilewska - President
Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN, NZ55
ul. Radzikowskiego 152,
31-342 Kraków, Poland,
tel./fax: +4812 662 8001,
e-mail: bpiok@ifj.edu.pl
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