Maria Skłodowska-Curie – Woman, Wife and Mother

• Authors: Krystyna Leszczyńska

Abstracts

EN

On May 20, 1921 during the ceremony of presenting a gram of radium to Maria Skłodowska-Curie, the President of the United States, Warren Harding, called the Polish scientist “the most noble of human beings, the best wife and a loving mother who could combine all the woman’s duties with the immense effort of her fabulous work.” It is unquestionable that scientific research in the field of experimental physics was the main aim and sense of Maria Skłodowska-Curie’s life. But this field of science, which a two-time Noble laureate has chosen, was, at those times, “exclusively male.”

Keywords

EN

Polish scientist; biography; Maria Skłodowska-Curie

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: Polish Political Science Yearbook
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 40
• Pages: 314-329

Dates

published

2011

Contributors

author

Krystyna Leszczyńska

• Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin (Poland)

Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/ppsy2011017

Biblioteka Nauki

2025324