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Marie Curie, née Maria Sklodowska, was born in Warsaw on November 7, 1867. She left Warsaw for Paris in 1891 to continue her studies in Physics and Mathematical Sciences at Sorbonne, and in 1903 received the Nobel Prize in Physics.
In his book, Ideas and Opinions, Einstein described Madame Curie as a person he came to admire for “her strength, her purity of will, her austerity toward herself, her objectivity, her incorruptible judgment – all these were of a kind seldom found joined in a single individual.” He said also that “the greatest scientific deed of her life - proving the existence of radioactive elements and isolating them – owes its accomplishment not merely to bold intuition but to a devotion and tenacity in execution under the most extreme hardships imaginable.”
Come and join us for a delightful one-woman dramatic presentation of “Madame Curie” by Dr. Carole Berg and an evening of conversation "in person" with Madame Curie to learn about her life and the discovery of radioactive elements.
Dr. Berg teaches chemistry at Bellevue College and is editor of the newsletter, the Puget Sound Chemist.
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