- Author:
Edward Olszewski
- Institution:
Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin (Poland)
- Year of publication:
2011
- Source:
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- Pages:
287-313
- DOI Address:
http://dx.doi.org/10.15804/ppsy2011016
- PDF:
ppsy/40/ppsy2011016.pdf
Biographers of Maria Skłodowska-Curie, characterizing her features of personality, underline her pragmatism, consequence in action and logical mind. Her studies in the fields of mathematics, physics and chemistry developed these features of personality and, at the same time, paved her way to achievements on the world’s scale.
- Author:
Krystyna Leszczyńska
- Institution:
Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin (Poland)
- Year of publication:
2011
- Source:
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- Pages:
314-329
- DOI Address:
http://dx.doi.org/10.15804/ppsy2011017
- PDF:
ppsy/40/ppsy2011017.pdf
On May 20, 1921 during the ceremony of presenting a gram of radium to Maria Skłodowska-Curie, the President of the United States, Warren Harding, called the Polish scientist “the most noble of human beings, the best wife and a loving mother who could combine all the woman’s duties with the immense effort of her fabulous work.” It is unquestionable that scientific research in the field of experimental physics was the main aim and sense of Maria Skłodowska-Curie’s life. But this field of science, which a two-time Noble laureate has chosen, was, at those times, “exclusively male.”
