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Thursday, July 28, 2011

Marie Curie's Awards and Honors ....

Sulekha Rani.R , P.G.T Chemistry, KV NTPC Kayamkulam

Marie Curie

Awards

Marie Skłodowska-Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel prize and the first person to win two Nobel Prizes.

The lives of famous scientists are not always luxurious. The Curies reportedly used part of their award money to replace wallpaper in their Parisian home and install modern plumbing into a bathroom.

Honors

1. Madame Curie was decorated with the French Legion of Honor.

2. In Poland, she had received honorary doctorates from the

Lwów Polytechnic (1912),

Poznań University (1922),

Kraków's Jagiellonian University (1924), and the

Warsaw Polytechnic (1926).

3. Their elder daughter, Irène Joliot-Curie, won a Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1935 for discovering that aluminum could be made radioactive and emit neutrons when bombarded with alpha rays.

4. Their younger daughter, Ève Curie, later wrote a biography of her mother.

5. Michalina Mościcka, wife of Polish President Ignacy Mościcki, unveiled a 1935 statue of Marie Curie before Warsaw's Radium Institute, which had been founded by Marie Curie. Within a decade, during the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, the monument suffered damage from gunfire. After the war, when maintenance was done, it was decided to leave the bullet-inflicted scars on the statue.

6. In 1967, a museum devoted to Skłodowska–Curie was established in Warsaw's "New Town", in her birthplace on ulica Freta (Freta Street)

7. The year 2011 has been declared the Year of Marie Curie by France and Poland. "Madame Curie," which fills the Jacobs gallery at the Museum of Contemporary Art’s downtown space, is an artistic installation celebrating the scientist.

TRIBUTES

1. As one of the most famous female scientists to date, Marie Curie has been an icon in the scientific world and has inspired many tributes and recognitions.

2. In 1995 she was the first woman to be entombed on her own merits in the Panthéon, Paris, alongside her husband Pierre Curie

3. The curie (symbol Ci), a unit of radioactivity, is named in honour of her and Pierre, as is the element with atomic number 96 – curium.

4. Three radioactive minerals are named after the Curies: curite, sklodowskite, and cuprosklodowskite.

5. Skłodowska-Curie's likeness appeared on the Polish late-1980s inflationary 20,000-złoty banknote. Her likeness also has appeared on stamps and coins, as well as on the last French 500-franc note, before the franc was replaced by the euro.
6. In a 2009 poll carried out by New Scientist, Marie Curie was voted the "most inspirational woman in science". Curie received 25.1 per cent of all votes cast, nearly twice as many as second-place Rosalind Franklin (14.2 per cent).
7. Polish institutions named after Maria Skłodowska–Curie include:
1.
Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, in Lublin, founded in 1944;
2. Maria Skłodowska–Curie Institute of Oncology, in Warsaw

8. French institutions named after Maria Skłodowska–Curie include

1. Pierre and Marie Curie University, the largest science, technology and medicine university in France, and successor to the faculty of science at the University of Paris, where Marie Curie taught. The university is home to the laboratory where the couple discovered radium.

2. The Curie Institute and Curie Museum, in Paris

3. In 2007, the Pierre Curie Paris Métro station was renamed the "Pierre et Marie Curie" station.

9. American institutions named after Maria Skłodowska–Curie include

1. Curie Community at the Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine, in

Chicago, a memorial gathering room for students at the university

2. In Bayside, Queens, New York, another school named for her, Marie Curie M.S. 158, specializes in science and technology; as does Curie Metropolitan High School – located in Archer Heights, on Chicago's Southwest Side – which has a Technical, Performing Arts and IB program

3. The Maria Skłodowska-Curie Medallion, a stained-glass panel created by Jozef C. Mazur, may be found at the University at Buffalo Polish Room

10. Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon starred in the 1943 U.S. Oscar-nominated film,Madame Curie, based on her life. "Marie Curie" also is the name of a character in a 1988 comedy, Young Einstein, by Yahoo Serious

11. . More recently, in 1997, a French film about Pierre and Marie Curie was released, Les Palmes de M. Schutz. It was adapted from a play of the same name. In the film, Marie Curie was played by Isabelle Huppert. Unlike the 1943 drama, Les Palmes de M. Shutz is a light comedy.

3. 12. A KLM McDonnell Douglas MD-11 (registration PH-KCC) is named in her honor.