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During the calendar year 2011 the scientific community, science literati, women scientists, historians, and various others in the world-at-large celebrate the centennial (100th anniversary) of Mme Marie Curie’s (1867–1934) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (Nobelprize.org, 1911), awarded to her in 1911 in recognition for her discovery of the new elements—radium and polonium—and study of the properties of radium in compounds. The 1911 Nobel Prize was as a sole award, reaffirming her share in the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics (divided between M. Henri Becquerel (1/2), M. Pierre Curie (1/4) and Mme Marie Sklodowska Curie (1/4)) (Nobelprize.org, 1903) and also accepting the greater challenge posed by her interdisciplinary discoveries for the field of chemistry.
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Abir-Am, P.G. (2011). Mme Curie’s 2011 Centennial and the Public Debate on the Underrepresentation of Women in Science. In: Chiu, MH., Gilmer, P.J., Treagust, D.F. (eds) Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Madame Marie Sklodowska Curie’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-719-6_11
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