November 5, 2021
Today in 1906, Marie Curie gave her inaugural lecture as the first woman lecturer at the Sorbonne. She explained the theory of ions in gases and her treatise on radioactivity. Madame Curie would become a Nobel prize winner and authority on radioactivity.
Marie Curie and her daughter Irène in the laboratory after WWI. Credit: Association Curie Joliot-Curie