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16 October 2008

FOUNDER SCIENCE EDUCATION

“Maria Skłodovska Curie”

INDUSTRY SOCIETYINDUSTRY SOCIETY

AGRICULTURE SOCIETYAGRICULTURE SOCIETY

INFORMATION SOCIETYINFORMATION SOCIETY

SCIENCE SOCIETYSCIENCE SOCIETYINFORMATION AGEINFORMATION AGE

SCIENCE AGESCIENCE AGE

BRAIN DECADEBRAIN DECADE

DIGITAL SOCIETY / AGEDIGITAL SOCIETY / AGE

SCIENCE EDUCATION

1988 Nobel Laurate Leon Lederman-Chicago

American Academy of Sciences-Smithsonian Institute

1992 Georges Charpack, Pierre Léna, Yves Quéré

La Main à la pâte

2002 TUBA

2006 TUBA

2007 TUBA

Ministry of National Education (MEB), State Planning Organization (DPT)

Maria Skłodovska Curie

7 November 1867

Warsaw

Bronislava Skłodovska

Freta, 16

Catholic, Teacher of Music

Wladyslaw

SkłodovskaTeacher of Physics

Nationalist of Poland

Russian Invasion

RetirementLoss of Retirement

BonusMoves to Poland Ghetto

Zofia, Helena, Maria, Jozef, Bronislava

Death of elder sister due to typhus Death of elder sister due to typhus (6)(6)

Death of mother due to tuberculosis Death of mother due to tuberculosis (11)(11)

Guiltiness feeling of the Guiltiness feeling of the fatherfather

Emotionally and mentally supported close Emotionally and mentally supported close familyfamily

““God who saves his men God who saves his men ?”?”

1873, Primary School

1877, Secondary School - Russian1883, Graduation with Gold Medal

1884, Flying University

1886-89, Governess1890-91, Physics Laboratory,

Warsaw

1891, Warsaw, Paris

4th class, 4000 liras

HEROIC ERA

1893 Physics Master

1894 Mathematics

1894 Scholarship

Reimbursement

1895 Doctorate

Pierre Curie

Dr. Eugene Curie inspired in his son a “Love for science and mathematics”16, Student in Sorbonne

19, Graduation from Sorbonne

19, Assistant

23, Professor in Physics and Chemistry

High School, 1882

X IŞINLARI

W. Conrad Roentgen

5 November 1895

X-RAYS

Henry Becquerel

Photograph in an unlit room

Lights darkening her films

Radioactivitiy

Pierre Curie, Maria

H. Becquerel

Pierre & Maria

CurieIrene

Eve

IreneEve

Private education for the children

Relationship between fluor rays and roentgen

Photograph film – sunless Paris

Radioactivity

Wooden building in the school

garden used as warehouse8 tons of mineral ore

Polonium - radium

Negative results after crystallization

Tales for Irene

Suddenly running to laboratory

1903 Nobel Physics Prize

Becquerel, Pierre-Maria Curie

RADIOTHERAPY – INTERSTITIAL BRACHYTHERAPY

Patent

Science is not for sale

Shared

19 April 1906

19 April 1906

Death of Pierre Curie

Move of Eugene Curie

Maria’s earrings

1911 Nobel Chemistry Prize

Chairmanship in Sorbonne

Refusal of membership application to French Academy of Sciences

Unfair publications about relations with Paul Langevin in French pressPure metal radium

World War I

No roentgen equipment in the army

Production of roentgen apparatus with Nobel Prize

200 portable roentgen machines

School of Roentgen Technicians

150 technicians

Irene Curie

Nurse

Technician

Driver

Teacher

1935 Nobel (Chemistry) Prize

Radium Institute after the Radium Institute after the warwar

A new laboratory in A new laboratory in SorbonneSorbonne

““Please transmit my appreciation Please transmit my appreciation to the Minister and inform him that to the Minister and inform him that I absolutely do not need an ounce I absolutely do not need an ounce of a jewellery but amazingly need a of a jewellery but amazingly need a laboratory.”laboratory.”

1 gram Radium

William Brown Meloney, Editor of Delineator

Campaign

20 May 1921

1 gram radium for Paris Radium Institute

Warren Harding

Warren Harding

Even now, after 25 years of intensive research, we Even now, after 25 years of intensive research, we feel there is a great deal still to be done. We have feel there is a great deal still to be done. We have made many discoveries. Pierre Curie in the made many discoveries. Pierre Curie in the suggestions, we have found in his notes and in suggestions, we have found in his notes and in thoughts he expressed to me has helped to guide thoughts he expressed to me has helped to guide us to them.us to them.

But no one of us can do much. At each of us But no one of us can do much. At each of us perhaps can catch some gleam of knowledge which perhaps can catch some gleam of knowledge which modest and insufficient of itself may add to men’s modest and insufficient of itself may add to men’s dream of truth. It is by these small candles in our dream of truth. It is by these small candles in our darkness that we see before us, little by little the darkness that we see before us, little by little the dim outlines of that great plan that shapes the dim outlines of that great plan that shapes the universe.universe.

And I’m among those who think that for this reason And I’m among those who think that for this reason science has great beauty and with it’s great science has great beauty and with it’s great spiritual strength will in time cleanse this world of spiritual strength will in time cleanse this world of it’s evils, it’s ignorance, it’s powerty, diseases, wars it’s evils, it’s ignorance, it’s powerty, diseases, wars and heartaches. and heartaches.

Look for the clear ligh of truth, look for unknown Look for the clear ligh of truth, look for unknown new roads. Even when men’s sight is keener far new roads. Even when men’s sight is keener far then now divine wonder will never fail him. Every then now divine wonder will never fail him. Every age has it’s own dreams, leave then dreams of age has it’s own dreams, leave then dreams of yesterday. You take the torch of the knowledge and yesterday. You take the torch of the knowledge and build the palace of a future.build the palace of a future.

4 July 1934Paris

Aplastic anemia

20 April 1995Marie-Pierre

CuriePantheon

Paris

About LivingAbout Living

““You have to take living seriously,You have to take living seriously,

in such a way, to such extent, for instance, in such a way, to such extent, for instance, your hands tied behind you,your hands tied behind you,

your back to the wall,your back to the wall,

or wearing thick spectacles and white robe,or wearing thick spectacles and white robe,

in a laboratory,in a laboratory,

you must be willing to die for other people,you must be willing to die for other people,

even those whose faces you have never even those whose faces you have never seen,seen,

although nobody has forcedr you to do thisalthough nobody has forcedr you to do this

and although you know that livingand although you know that living

is the most beautiful and the most genuine is the most beautiful and the most genuine thing”thing”

Nazim Hikmet, 1948Nazim Hikmet, 1948