The Musée Curie is located in Marie Curie’s third and last laboratory at the Radium Institute, which was built in 1914 to house studies on radiation and its applications in cancer treatment. She spent the last twenty years of her life there, in the laboratory where her elder daughter Irène, along with her husband Frédéric Joliot, discovered artificial radioactivity in 1934, thus continuing the scientific work she had undertaken with Pierre Curie at the dawn of the 20th century. Marie Curie’s office and chemistry laboratory have been preserved and constitute the oldest part of Institut Curie. Originally two laboratories separated by a garden, the Radium Institute was staffed by chemists, physicists, biologists, and doctors.The objects and documents conserved by the Curie Museum bear witness to the scientific and medical work of the Radium Institute and of the Curie Family.
The Musée Curie is located in Marie Curie’s third and last laboratory at the Radium Institute, which was built in 1914 to house studies on radiation and its applications in cancer treatment. She spent the last twenty years of her life there, in the laboratory where her elder daughter Irène, along with her husband Frédéric Joliot, discovered artificial radioactivity in 1934, thus continuing the scientific work she had undertaken with Pierre Curie at the dawn of...
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