Birthday of Marie Curie (1867-1934)
November 7

Born Marya Sklodowska in Warsaw, Poland, Mme. Curie's intellectual gifts manifested early in her life. In addition to her chemistry and physics research endeavors, she served for 30 years as a professor in universities, including the Sorbonne. She founded the Curie Institute and Foundation for the study of therapeutic applications of radioactivity.

Mme. Curie advised, "You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be the most useful."

To learn more about Madame Curie, visit the American Institute of Physics website.

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