The figure of the Polish scientist Marie Curie is still being honoured and it is for this reason that this afternoon at 19:00 hrs., at the Natural Sciences Museum (José Gutiérrez Abascal, 2) Belén Yuste and Sonnia L. Rivas-Caballero, authors of the biography María Sklodowska-Curie, a Pole in Paris, will end the cycle of conferences that have run alongside the exhibition of the same title of which they are commissioners (National Natural Sciences Museum), organised by the CSIC and Rocaviva Events. Free entry, limited capacity.
María Sklodowska-Curie (Varsovia, 1867 – Sancellemoz, 1934) was the first woman to receive a Doctorate in Physical Sciences from the University of the Sorbonne, to receive a Professorship, and to become, in 1992, the first woman and first foreigner to be interred in the Pantheon of Illustrious Men in Paris. She was also the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903, with her husband Pierre Curie, and the one for Chemistry in 1911 (this time on her own).
This conference is organized within the Spanish homage to Marie Curie, a tribute that wants to shed light on an idealist, solidary and engaged woman who carried out a great humanitarian effort in the First World War, saving countless lives and avoiding traumatic amputations with the creation of mobile radiological units which allowed the pinpointing of projectiles for later extraction.
