The legacy of Maria Curie Skłodowska

• Authors: Ryszard Sosnowski
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Maria Skłodowska Curie left us a great legacy. Her discovery of polonium and radium was incomparably greater than the mere discovery of new elements. Its significance lay in the discovery of a new form of matter, namely radioactive one, but also in her unveiling of the internal property of its atoms. Subsequently emitted radiation went on to play the role of a "natural accelerator" for both scientific research and in medical radiotherapy. It was thanks to these discoveries that the field of nuclear physics arose just a few decades later. As importantly the work of Maria Curie Skłodowska during the Great War demonstrated how important pure scientific discovery can be for society and its welfare.

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej
• Journal: Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska, sectio AAA – Physica
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 66
• Pages: 101-115

Dates

published

1 - 1 - 2011

online

14 - 2 - 2012

Contributors

author

Ryszard Sosnowski

• Andrzej Sołtan Institute for Nuclear Studies Świerk-Otwock

References

• Irene Joliot-Curie, Prace Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie, Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warszawa (1954)
• Maria Skłodowska-Curie, Autobiographical Notes & Pierre Curie, Dom Wydawniczo-Promocyjny GAL, Warszawa 2006
• Ewa Curie, Maria Curie, Galster, Lauter I Rutkowski, Warszawa (1949)
• Maria Curie, La Radiologie et la Guerre, Librair Felix Alcan, Paris (1920)
• Robert Guillaumont and Bernd Grenbow, Chem. Int. 33 No1 (2011)

Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10246-012-0006-5