Yücel KANPOLAT 16 October 2008 FOUNDER SCIENCE EDUCATION “Maria Skłodovska Curie”

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SCIENCE EDUCATION 1988 Nobel Laurate Leon Lederman-Chicago American Academy of Sciences-Smithsonian Institute 1992 Georges Charpack, Pierre Léna, Yves Quéré La Main à la pâte 2002 TUBA 2006 TUBA 2007 TUBA Ministry of National Education (MEB), State Planning Organization (DPT)

Maria Skłodovska Curie 7 November 1867 Warsaw

Bronislava Skłodovska Freta, 16 Catholic, Teacher of Music Wladyslaw Skłodovska Teacher of Physics Nationalist of Poland Russian Invasion Retirement Loss of Retirement Bonus Moves to Poland Ghetto

Zofia, Helena, Maria, Jozef, Bronislava

Death of elder sister due to typhus (6) Death of mother due to tuberculosis (11) Guiltiness feeling of the father Emotionally and mentally supported close family “God who saves his men ?”

1873, Primary School 1877, Secondary School - Russian 1883, Graduation with Gold Medal

1884, Flying University , Governess , Physics Laboratory, Warsaw 1891, Warsaw, Paris 4th class, 4000 liras

HEROIC ERA 1893 Physics Master 1894 Mathematics 1894 Scholarship Reimbursement 1895 Doctorate

Pierre Curie Dr. Eugene Curie inspired in his son a “Love for science and mathematics” 16, Student in Sorbonne 19, Graduation from Sorbonne 19, Assistant 23, Professor in Physics and Chemistry High School, 1882

X IŞINLARI W. Conrad Roentgen 5 November 1895

X-RAYS Henry Becquerel Photograph in an unlit room Lights darkening her films Radioactivitiy Pierre Curie, Maria H. Becquerel

Pierre & Maria Curie Irene Eve

Irene Eve Private education for the children

Relationship between fluor rays and roentgen Photograph film – sunless Paris Radioactivity Wooden building in the school garden used as warehouse 8 tons of mineral ore Polonium - radium

Negative results after crystallization Tales for Irene Suddenly running to laboratory

1903 Nobel Physics Prize Becquerel, Pierre-Maria Curie

RADIOTHERAPY – INTERSTITIAL BRACHYTHERAPY Patent Science is not for sale Shared

19 April 1906

Death of Pierre Curie Move of Eugene Curie

Maria’s earrings

1911 Nobel Chemistry Prize Chairmanship in Sorbonne Refusal of membership application to French Academy of Sciences Unfair publications about relations with Paul Langevin in French press Pure metal radium

World War I No roentgen equipment in the army Production of roentgen apparatus with Nobel Prize 200 portable roentgen machines School of Roentgen Technicians 150 technicians

Irene Curie Nurse Technician Driver Teacher 1935 Nobel (Chemistry) Prize

Radium Institute after the war A new laboratory in Sorbonne “Please transmit my appreciation to the Minister and inform him that I absolutely do not need an ounce of a jewellery but amazingly need a laboratory.”

1 gram Radium William Brown Meloney, Editor of Delineator Campaign

20 May gram radium for Paris Radium Institute Warren Harding

Even now, after 25 years of intensive research, we feel there is a great deal still to be done. We have made many discoveries. Pierre Curie in the suggestions, we have found in his notes and in thoughts he expressed to me has helped to guide us to them. But no one of us can do much. At each of us perhaps can catch some gleam of knowledge which modest and insufficient of itself may add to men’s dream of truth. It is by these small candles in our darkness that we see before us, little by little the dim outlines of that great plan that shapes the universe. And I’m among those who think that for this reason science has great beauty and with it’s great spiritual strength will in time cleanse this world of it’s evils, it’s ignorance, it’s powerty, diseases, wars and heartaches. Look for the clear ligh of truth, look for unknown new roads. Even when men’s sight is keener far then now divine wonder will never fail him. Every age has it’s own dreams, leave then dreams of yesterday. You take the torch of the knowledge and build the palace of a future.

4 July 1934 Paris Aplastic anemia 20 April 1995 Marie-Pierre Curie Pantheon Paris

About Living “You have to take living seriously, in such a way, to such extent, for instance, your hands tied behind you, your back to the wall, or wearing thick spectacles and white robe, in a laboratory, you must be willing to die for other people, even those whose faces you have never seen, although nobody has forcedr you to do this and although you know that living is the most beautiful and the most genuine thing” Nazim Hikmet, 1948