FASCINATING PEOPLE, Part.11

Marie Curie was a Polish born scientist who, with her husband Pierre, was awarded a 1903 Nobel Prize for discovering radium. Throughout her life she actively promoted the use of radium to alleviate suffering and during World War I she personally devoted herself to this remedial work (cancer therapy). Quiet, dignified and unassuming, was held in high esteem and admiration by scientists throughout the world. The importance of her work is reflected in the numerous awards bestowed on her. She received many honorary science, medicine and law degrees and honorary memberships of learned societies throughout the world. In 1911 she received a second Nobel Prize, this time in Chemistry, in recognition of her work in radioactivity. The ashes of Marie Curie and her husband have now been laid to rest under the famous dome of the Le Panthéon, in Paris, alongside the author Victor Hugo, the politician Jean Jaurès and the Resistance fighter Jean Moulin.