Marie Curie's first Nobel Prize
In conjunction with the "Celebration of Women in Science" symposium (see story), the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library will present an exhibition commemorating the centennial of the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Physics to Marie Curie and her collaborators Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel in October of 1903.
The display will open on Nov. 3 in the rotunda of the library, located at 333 Cedar St. It continues through mid-March.
More than any woman scientist before her and for decades afterwards, Marie Curie was part of the mainstream of science, and today she is still hailed as one of the most inspirational women scientists in history. She obtained a thorough scientific education from some of the leading physicists and mathematicians in Paris. On her own, and with her husband, Pierre Curie, she carried out pioneering research in radioactivity, a term that she coined.
The Curies discovered and investigated properties of two new radioactive elements, polonium and radium, and laid the basis for a new area of science, as well as for a new form of medical treatment. Marie Curie's work formed part of the succession of major discoveries that transformed 19th-century classical physics into 20th-century atomic and nuclear physics.
For her achievements, she was awarded two Nobel prizes, the first in physics in 1903 and another in chemistry in 1911. She became the first woman to hold a chair at the University of Paris, and to lead a major laboratory where students carried out doctoral research and visiting scientists received fellowships.
The exhibit, sponsored by Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, is curated by Toby Appel.
Among the images on display are a portrait of Curie that is on loan from the Dibner Foundation, and the Dibner Institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a photograph of Curie receiving an honorary Doctor of Science degree at Yale commencement in 1921.
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