Marie Curie
Title
Marie Curie
Subject
Polish Science and Medicine
Description
Marie Curie was a famed Polish-born, French-naturalized scientist who studied radiology and was awarded two Nobel Prizes for her work on radium and for the discovery of two elements, radium and polonium (named after Poland). She contributed, and indeed drove them into the battlefield, to the use of mobile X-ray units during WWI, establishing the importance of X-ray use in medicine. She later founded an institute of radiation in Warsaw, which was destroyed in 1944 and rebuilt by 1947.
Creator
Alex Chen
Source
Public Domain Image: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Maria_Sk%C5%82odowska-Curie#/media/File:Mariecurie.jpg
Date
1867 - 1934
Rights
Public Domain
Type
Photograph
Files
Citation
Alex Chen, “Marie Curie,” Mapping Cultural Space Across Eurasia, accessed April 20, 2024, https://eurasia.omeka.fas.harvard.edu/items/show/895.
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Item Relations
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