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    HISTORY CORNER

    Marie Curie, PhD (1867–1934)


    Dominique Le Guludec, MD, PhDa on behalf of the History Corner
    a
    Hôpital Bichât, APHP, Présidente de la Haute Autorité de Santé, Paris, France

    Received Aug 5, 2022; accepted Aug 5, 2022


    doi:10.1007/s12350-022-03101-6

    accept female students at the time. Thus, Marie’s elder


    sister, Bronya, went to Paris to study medicine. Maria
    followed her when she was 24.
    The significant discoveries of Marie Curie and her
    husband Pierre Curie are well known. First, the char-
    acterization of radioactivity itself and then the discovery
    of the radioactive components, Polonium and Radium,
    in 1898. These achievements were possible due to her
    intelligence, remarkable intuition, and relentless work
    ethics, using very minimal equipment. The Nobel Prize
    was awarded twice to Marie Curie. The first, shared with
    her husband Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel, was the
    1903 Nobel Prize in Physics for their research on
    radioactivity. The second was the 1911 Nobel Prize in
    Chemistry for her research on Polonium and Radium.
    She was the first woman ever to receive a Nobel Prize,
    and the only person to earn two Nobel Prizes in different
    fields. Overall, the Curie family ended up with four
    Nobel Prize recipients (Marie, Pierre, their daughter
    Irène and Irène’s husband Frédéric Joliot).
    However, the above does not summarize the fasci-
    nating person Marie Curie was.
    Marie Curie, 1917. What is less well known, and what interests me
    most as a scientist and a woman, are several aspects of
    her life story and personality.
    Marie Curie was born Maria Salomea Skłodowska
    Marie Curie showed great solidarity and dedication
    on November 7th, 1867, in then Russian-occupied
    to her family. Marie made a deal with her sister that she
    Warsaw, Poland.
    would remain in Warsaw and work as a preceptor or
    Marie’s parents were teachers who lived on modest
    home tutor. From her earnings she paid for her sister’s
    incomes. Her father was a teacher of physics and
    medical studies. After 5 years and having attended
    mathematics. Her mother, who ran a prestigious Warsaw
    clandestinely courses at the Underground University in
    boarding school, died of tuberculosis when Maria was
    Russian-occupied Warsaw, Marie started her own sci-
    only 10 years old. In Marie’s family intellectual
    entific studies at the Sorbonne University (1891).
    curiosity was the rule and anything was a teaching or
    Marie’s first years in Paris were very challenging, a life
    learning opportunity. The University of Warsaw did not
    of misery, near starvation, and freezing winters in her
    attic room. Nevertheless, she earned in a short time
    master’s degrees in physics (1893) and in mathematics
    Reprint requests: Dominique Le Guludec, MD, PhD, Hôpital Bichât,
    (1894). This was to be followed by her well known and
    APHP, Présidente de la Haute Autorité de Santé, Paris, France;
    dominique.leguludec@gmail.com remarkable scientific career.
    J Nucl Cardiol 2023;30:17–9. Although not a medical doctor, Marie realized
    1071-3581/$34.00 during World War 1 that x-rays could be used to detect
    Copyright Ó 2022 The Author(s) under exclusive licence to American bullets, shrapnel, and broken bones. She got involved in
    Society of Nuclear Cardiology

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