102858 | POLAND & CZECHOSLOVAKIA. Marie Curie silvered bronze Medal.

102858  |  POLAND & CZECH REPUBLIC. Marie Curie silvered bronze Medal. Issued 1967 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the famous physicist and chemist (50mm, 57.79 g, 12h). By K. Kuneš.

 

IN RVDERIBVS VALLIS IOACHIMICAE ELEMENTVM RADII REPPERIT / MARIA CVRIE SKŁODOWSKA, head left // PRIMAE ORBIS TERRARVM AQVAE RADIO VALENTES / VALLIS IOACHIMICA ORIGO ATOMORVM SAECVLI / MCMLXVII, representation of an atom. Edge: Some very light parallel grooves as made, otherwise plain.

 

Science Museum Group Coll. A661122. About Uncirculated details. Cleaned.

 

Born in Warsaw in 1867, in then-Russian-dominated Poland, Marie Curie would eventually move to Paris where she, along with her husband Pierre, would become one of the most important physicists and chemists of the 20th century. She would be the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first to win for the second time, the first do so across two scientific fields, and the first to win as a couple (with Pierre). She would eventually succumb to her research, as she passed away from a form of anemia likely induced by her decades of exposure to radiation, dying in 1934 at the age of just 66.

 

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