inging immediate help to the wounded, she and put together numerous radiological stations with trained personnel. Upon Curie's discoveries Radium Institute was founded in Paris, a universal center for nuclear physics and chemistry. In 1922 Marie was awarded a membership in the Academy of Medicine, and she committed her research to medical applications of radioactive substances.” (Source 2)Marie did not like fame or publicity. Albert Einstein said about her: "Marie Curie is, of all celebrated beings, the only one whom fame has not corrupted". She worked with determination, and was awarded $50,000 in 1929 from U.S. President Hoover to buy radium for laboratory research in Warsaw. Marie was a member of the Conseil du Physique Solvay from 1911 until her death, and since 1922, she was a member of the Committee of Intellectual Co-operation of the League of Nations. Marie’s work is recorded in many papers in scientific journals and she is the author of Recherches sur les Substances Radioactives (Investigations on radioactive substances) (1904), L'Isotopie et les Elments Isotopes (Isotopy and isotopic elements) and the classic Trait de radioactivit (Treatise on radioactivity) (1910). (Source 4)Marie’s most significant contribution to science is her work in the discovery of radium and its medical uses. She was a prominent physicist and was awarded many prizes. Marie’s death on July 4,1934 in Savoy, France, was ironic because she died of leukemia from overexposure to radiation. ...
