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Curie (MARIE SKLODOWSKA a French)

MARIE SKLODOWSKA, a French scientist. She was born at Warsaw, 1867, and was educated at the Lycée de Varsovie, and later at the Sorbonne, Faculté des Sciences, Paris. She graduated in physical science, and mathematics and received the degree of Licenciée in both departments, as well as that of Docteur des Sciences. In 1910 she received the Albert Medal of the Royal Society of Arts. She has been professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure at Sèvres and since 1919 has been professor of Radiology at Warsaw. During 1920 it was made known that she had made further discoveries in the direction of the use of radium in the treatment of disease. Her works include: "Recherches sur les propriétés magnétiques des aciers trempés"; "Recherches sur les substances radioactives."