Marie Curie

One hundred years ago a woman who was to become one of the most illustrious scientists of our century was born in Warsaw. Maria Sklodowska, or Marie Curie as the world was to know her, dedicated her entire life passionately and unselfishly to science and above all to the completely new science of radioactivity, of which she was one of the pioneers.

The Unesco Courier has asked a distinguished Polish physicist, Leopold Infeld, and a French woman scientist, Marguerite Perey, who worked for several years with Marie Curie, to recount the early life of this woman of genius and the closing years of her work for science.

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