New euro banknotes ignite Franco-Polish controversy regarding Marie Curie’s name
The design of the upcoming Euro banknotes has reignited a longstanding discussion between France and Poland regarding the legacy of Marie Curie, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist. Curie, born in Warsaw in 1867, later relocated to France, where she made history by becoming the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in 1903, sharing the honor […]
Demolition of Marie Curie’s Paris lab ‘suspended’
The demolition of Marie Curie's Paris Institute has been temporarily halted as campaigners fight to have the building designated as a historic monument. The Nobel Prize-winning scientist's laboratory at 26 Rue Ulme in Paris' Latin Quarter was scheduled to be bulldozed on Monday, but France's Culture Minister Rima Abdul Malak intervened to stop it. Malak […]