Marie Skłodowska-Curie: teacher, mentor, research center founder, and “la Patronne"

• Autorzy: Hoffman D. C.
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

This year (2011) marks the 100th Anniversary of the award of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Marie Skłodowska-Curie for her discoveries of radium and polonium and her studies of their properties. The United Nations has proclaimed 2011 as the “International Year of Chemistry”, partly in recognition of this 100th anniversary. A resolution of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland has also established 2011 as the Year of Maria Skłodowska-Curie. Marie Curie has been celebrated this year by a host of prestigious societies and in many countries all around the world for winning Nobel Prizes in both Physics (1903), for the discovery of radioactivity together with husband Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel, and Chemistry (1911). She was the first woman to win Nobel Prizes in both Physics and Chemistry and the only one to date to win prizes in both physics and chemistry. Also remarkable was that after Pierre Curie’s tragic and untimely death in 1906, she was put in charge of his lectures and laboratory, thus marking the first time in France that a woman occupied such a prestigious academic position, and opening the way for other women to follow. The current article will focus on some of the other notable accomplishments of Marie Curie that are not as commonly recognized, including her organizational and persuasive abilities, and her unique contributions as a teacher, mentor, research center founder, and laboratory “la Patronne”.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

1903 Physics Nobel Prize; 1911 Chemistry Nobel Prize; marriage of Maria Skłodowska and Pierre Curie 1985; polonium and radium discoveries 1898; 1906 death of Pierre Curie; Laboratory Director 1904-1934

• Wydawca: Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology
• Czasopismo: Nukleonika
• Rocznik: 2011
• Tom: Vol. 56, No. 3
• Strony: 195--202
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 5 poz.

Twórcy

autor

Hoffman D. C.

• Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, USA and Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, One Cyclotron Road, MS 70R0319, Berkeley, CA 94720-8169, USA, Tel.: [phone], Fax: [phone],

Bibliografia

• 1. Curie E (1937) Madame Curie. Doubleday, New York
• 2. Curie P (1967) Radioactive substances, especially radium (Nobel Lecture, June 6, 1905). In: Nobel Lectures, Physics 1901–1921. Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1903/Pierre-Curie-lecture.pdf
• 3. IUPAC, vol. 33, no. 1, Marie Skłodowska-Curie, a special issue commemorating the l00th anniversary of her Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2011). [The news magazine of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry 202 D. C. Hoffman (IUPAC) just published this special issue. It is a superb compendium of authoritative articles celebrating not only Marie Skłodowska-Curie’s scientific achievements, but also showing what an extraordinary and amazing person she was and the tremendous breadth of her interests and achievements. In addition to authoritative biographical sketches and articles on various aspects of Marie Curie’s life and research, accounts of other relevant discoveries of the time, medicine after the discovery of radium, many photos and references, and information about programs and institutions bearing her name are included. It is an invaluable resource.]
• 4. McGrayne Bertsch S (1998) Nobel Prize women in science: their lives, struggles, and momentous discoveries, 2nd ed. Carol Publishing Group, Secaucus, NJ
• 5. Quinn S (1996) Marie Curie: a life. Addison-Wesley, Reading Mass