Creator/Photographer: Transocean (Photographic company, Berlin)
Medium: Medium unknown
Date: Prior to 1934
Collection: Scientific Identity: Portraits from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology - As a supplement to the Dibner Library for the History of Science and Technology's collection of written works by scientists, engineers, natural philosophers, and inventors, the library also has a collection of thousands of portraits of these individuals. The portraits come in a variety of formats: drawings, woodcuts, engravings, paintings, and photographs, all collected by donor Bern Dibner. Presented here are a few photos from the collection, from the late 19th and early 20th century.
Persistent URL: www.sil.si.edu/imagegalaxy/imagegalaxy_imageDetail.cfm?id...
Repository: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Accession number: SIL14-C6-05
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mel-pin 57 months ago | reply
Great woman
br@mbly 57 months ago | reply
And the only Nobel prizewinner to have a child who also won the Nobel Prize.
As someone working in France and married to a Frenchman, I think she'd have known herself as Marie Curie.
sirmortimer 57 months ago | reply
i see determination on her face
bazia.u 56 months ago | reply
She wasn't only French - she was Polish in the first place and as far as I know - has always used "Skłodowska-Curie" -> with her maiden name first.
She died on leukaemia.
*brambly* - there were others, just check it.
entelepentele 55 months ago | reply
amazing portrait.
eastendimages 54 months ago | reply
"As someone working in France and married to a Frenchman, I think she'd have known herself as Marie Curie. "
i mean, there's not point to speculate if you can read the facts in history books and every encyclopaedia. it's even more obvious, than with Fryderyk Szopen.
Maria, not Marie, and Skłodowska-Curie, not just Curie. She wasn't French - she was married to a fellow French scientist, Pierre. She was born in Warsaw where she lived for almost half of her life and moved to Paris with her sister to study. Yes, she became a french citizen, but till her last days she was also involved in polish scientific affairs (founding two institutes).
br@mbly 54 months ago | reply
Fine, I stand corrected. I have come to realise by now that not everything I learnt in school was the gospel truth.
eastendimages 54 months ago | reply
well, you're right here. it's not like polish historians (especially during the communist era) didn't exaggerate certain achievements of polish (and soviet) science and culture and never claimed lithuanian, belarussian, ukrainian historic personas as their own :-)
what i meant was, she wasn't a part of ancient history and i'm sure her life is quite well documented. and it's widely known, that she was proud of her origin and kept in touch with the old country. it's worth to remember, that back then poland was under russian, prussian and austrian rule and wasn't an independent country - many artists, writers, scientists and freedom figthers sought shelter in france
every country has their asylum seekers, immigrants and foreigners - we call them... "THEM". once they achieve something they immediately become "US". a bunch of hooded youths from marseille will be "THEM" (black, arabs etc.). MC Solaar is one of "US", french etc. jamaican runners became americans, because they won few gold medals and no white american can run that fast :-) i know it's a stereotype, but this is how it works.
jyotsnapathania [deleted] 54 months ago | reply
What a rae treat to see her, thanx for introducing her after ages , could never have ever met her
Lú_ 52 months ago | reply
This image has been included in the Indicommons.org post Women across the Commons, prior to International Women's Day.
zyrcster 52 months ago | reply
It'd be great to see her in your Women in Science set, too. :)
Smithsonian Institution 52 months ago | reply
Good suggestion! Done!
manymoneyja 52 months ago | reply
cool pic
Alex Vivante 52 months ago | reply
Great picture, good, deep expression!
sezohanim 52 months ago | reply
A superb portrait in middle age of one of my heroes.
kulmenman [deleted] 51 months ago | reply
Maria C. Skłodowska - Super Woman. Portrait..perfect.
elagabler 48 months ago | reply
Maria Skłodowska was born in Warsaw, Poland!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie#Early_life_in_Poland
rosewithoutathorn84 45 months ago | reply
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Historic Heroines, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
borgisplat 39 months ago | reply
can we lose the sepia?
cudau.botcanh 36 months ago | reply
Nice pic!!!!!!!!!