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Marie Curie at International Conference. Einstein is second on the right.
At the end of the First World War, she returned to the Institute of Radium in Paris. She also published a book – Radiology in War (1919) which encompassed her great ideas on science. Curie was also proud to participate in the newly formed League of Nations, through joining the International Commission for Intellectual Cooperation in August 1922.
“I believe international work is a heavy task, but that it is nevertheless indispensable to go through an apprenticeship in it, at the cost of many efforts and also of a real spirit of sacrifice: however imperfect it may be, the work of Geneva has a grandeur that deserves our support.”
Letter to Eve Curie (July 1929)
Marie Curie was known for her modest and frugal lifestyle. She asked any financial prizes to be given to research bodies rather than herself. During the First World War, she offered her Nobel Prizes to the French Treasury.
Marie Curie died in 1934 from Cancer. It was an unfortunate side effect of her own ground-breaking studies into radiation which were to help so many people.
Legacy
Marie Curie pushed back many frontiers in science, and at the same time set a new bar for female academic and scientific achievement.
Her discovery of radium enabled Ernest Rutherford to investigate the structure of the atom and it provided the framework for Radiotherapy for cancer.
Curie also played a leading role in redefining women’s role in society and science
At the end of the First World War, she returned to the Institute of Radium in Paris. She also published a book – Radiology in War (1919) which encompassed her great ideas on science. Curie was also proud to participate in the newly formed League of Nations, through joining the International Commission for Intellectual Cooperation in August 1922.
“I believe international work is a heavy task, but that it is nevertheless indispensable to go through an apprenticeship in it, at the cost of many efforts and also of a real spirit of sacrifice: however imperfect it may be, the work of Geneva has a grandeur that deserves our support.”
Letter to Eve Curie (July 1929)
Marie Curie was known for her modest and frugal lifestyle. She asked any financial prizes to be given to research bodies rather than herself. During the First World War, she offered her Nobel Prizes to the French Treasury.
Marie Curie died in 1934 from Cancer. It was an unfortunate side effect of her own ground-breaking studies into radiation which were to help so many people.
Legacy
Marie Curie pushed back many frontiers in science, and at the same time set a new bar for female academic and scientific achievement.
Her discovery of radium enabled Ernest Rutherford to investigate the structure of the atom and it provided the framework for Radiotherapy for cancer.
Curie also played a leading role in redefining women’s role in society and science
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