Curie, Marie, 1867-1934
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: 1867-1934. Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie was a Polish-French physicist and chemist. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and the first person to win a Nobel Prize twice and in two scientific fields. Skłodowska-Curie conducted pioneering research on radioactivity and discovered the elements of polonium and radium. Curie visited Memorial Hospital in 1921 while on a tour of the US.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Hayes Martin Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0023
Scope and Contents
Approximately 7.5 cubic ft., 1782-1973. Contains materials relating to the treatment of cancer, to the history of Memorial Hospital, and to certain individuals associated with it. This includes biographical information on James Ewing, James Douglas, and J. Marion Sim; material on Mme. Marie Curie's visits to the U. S. in the 1920s; and files on cancer therapies and quackery. Also includes notes, drafts, and other materials relating to both editions of Martin's Surgery of Head and Neck...
Dates:
1782 - 1973
Public Affairs Office of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Collection
Identifier: MSK 0005
Scope and Contents
Contains printed materials, publications, photographs, and audiovisual materials regarding the workings of the Public Affairs Office. Publications include Memorial-published periodicals, pamphlets, and press releases, as well as outside publications, clippings and citations of news and magazine articles ,and transcripts of radio and television interviews and reports featuring or referencing MSK and/or cancer treatment and research. Some article clippings were compiled into...
Dates:
1885 - 1992