Lot 121
Curie, Marie Slodowska (1867-1934) Physicist; winner of two Nobel prizes, one in physics and one in chemistry. Photograph Signed "M. Curie" on the mount, below the photograph, 8 5/8x5¾", n.p., n.d. Very fine. Matted and framed to an overall size of 14x10½".
Marie Curie grew up in Warsaw, Poland. She studied at the Sorbonne and was the first woman to teach there. She and her husband Pierre conducted research on radioactivity, discovering radium and polonium. Together they won the 1903 Nobel prize, shared with Antoine Henri Bacquerel. Pierre died in 1906 and Marie continued her research, winning the Novel prize for chemistry in 1911 for isolating radium and studying its chemical properties. She helped found the Radium Institute in Paris in 1914 and was the Institute's first director. She died of leukemia, thought to have been caused by exposure to the high levels of radiation involved in her research. The Radium Institute was renamed the Curie Institute in her honor.
Estimated Value $3,000 - 5,000.
Sang Collection.
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