Sklodowska was the maiden name of which Nobel Prize winner?
"relevant fields was greater), a greater delay in awarding Nobel Prizes for women's achievements making longevity a more important factor for women (Nobel Prizes are not awarded posthumously), and a tendency to omit women from jointly awarded Nobel Prizes. Four people have received two Nobel Prizes. Marie Curie received the Physics Prize in 1903 for her work on radioactivity and the Chemistry Prize in 1911 for the isolation of pure radium, making her the only person to be awarded a Nobel Prize in two different sciences. Linus Pauling was awarded the 1954 Chemistry Prize for his research into the chemical"
"named in her honor. Marie Curie Marie Skłodowska Curie (; ; ; born Maria Salomea Skłodowska; 7 November 18674 July 1934) was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and only woman to win twice, the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences, and was part of the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. She was also the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris, and in 1995 became the first woman"
"Marie Curie Marie Skłodowska Curie (; ; ; born Maria Salomea Skłodowska; 7 November 18674 July 1934) was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and only woman to win twice, the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences, and was part of the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. She was also the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris, and in 1995 became the first woman to be entombed on"
"Skłodowska-Curie is the Polish — and later French through naturalization — namesake of the programme and was the first female Nobel prize winner. The only person to win a Nobel Prize for contributions in two different sciences (physics and chemistry), she was also the first — and only woman — to have been awarded a Nobel Price twice. Fellowships are awarded by the European Commission across scientific disciplines within the framework of Horizon 2020. MSCA are grouped into the following schemes: Within the framework of Horizon 2020, which runs from 2014 through 2020, MSCA will award €6.16 billion in funding."
"of a Hungarian king. During the Enlightenment, two women stand out: Barbara Sanguszko, hostess, writer and philanthropist and her granddaughter, Tekla Teresa Lubienska, writer and mother of a magnate dynasty. Emilia Plater was an early revolutionary associated with the November Uprising. In music, the composer and pianist, Maria Szymanowska won acclaim from St-Petersburg to London. Marie Sklodowska was a Nobel Prize winning scientist who moved to France in the late 19th-c. Many notable women contributed to Poland's independence movement at the dawn of the 20th-c. These included, the activist and military officers, Aleksandra Zagórska and the mostly forgotten, Wanda Gertz"
"However, the double Nobel laureate Maria Skłodowska-Curie's physician sister, Bronisława Dłuska, scolded him for having used his great talent for purposes other than bettering the future of his native land But thirty-two-year-old Aniela Zagórska (daughter of the ""pension"" keeper), Conrad's niece who would translate his works into Polish in 1923–39, idolized him, kept him company, and provided him with books. He particularly delighted in the stories and novels of the ten-years-older, recently deceased Bolesław Prus, read everything by his fellow victim of Poland's 1863 Uprising – ""my beloved Prus"" – that he could get his hands on, and pronounced him"
"Maria Skłodowska-Curie Museum The Maria Skłodowska-Curie Museum () is a museum in Warsaw, Poland, devoted to the life and work of Polish two-time Nobel laureate Maria Skłodowska-Curie (1867–1934). The museum, which is sponsored by the Polish Chemical Society, is the only biographical museum in the world devoted to the discoverer of polonium and radium. The museum is located at 16 Freta Street (""ulica Freta 16"") in Warsaw's ""New Town"" district (dating from the 15th century), and is housed in the 18th-century apartment building in which Maria Skłodowska was born. Due to renovation, in December 2014 the museum was temporarily moved"
"its first president. In September 2010, she was posthumously awarded the Commander's Cross with Star Order of Polonia Restituta ""for outstanding services in support of democratic transformation in Poland, for humanitarian aid to Poles during martial law and for her social activism"". From her marriage she had a son, Andrzej Stypułkowski, born 1929 who also became an émigré political activist. Aleksandra Stypułkowska Aleksandra Stypułkowska (October 7, 1906 Warsaw - March 20, 1982 London) was a Polish lawyer, member of the Polish resistance, concentration camp inmate, activist and political journalist with Radio Free Europe, where she broadcast under the pseudonym, Jadwiga"
"Bronisława Dłuska Bronisława Dłuska (; ""née"" Skłodowska, 28 March 186515 April 1939) was a Polish physician, and co-founder and the first director of Warsaw's Maria Skłodowska-Curie Institute of Oncology. She was married to political activist Kazimierz Dłuski, and was an older sister of physicist Marie Curie. Bronisława was born 28 March 1865 in Warsaw to Władysław Skłodowski and Bronisława Skłodowska, both of whom were teachers. The second eldest of five children, she had three sisters—Zofia, , and Maria—and a brother, . On both the paternal and maternal sides, the family had lost their property and fortunes through patriotic involvements in"
"charitable works; her parents were well known for this in their native Poland. Her home's religious circumstances were also quite unique since half were Roman Catholic and the other half was Protestant (descended from the Jauch house). Chrzanowska was a relative of the Nobel laureate Henryk Sienkiewicz (on her father's side) who was best known for writing the novel Quo Vadis. Her maternal grandfather Karol set up a technical school for aspiring artisans while his wife Maria set up a health center for poor children in Warsaw. Her maternal aunt Zofia Szlenkier was known for her philanthropic efforts and in"
"for exceptional merit in saving human lives"". Alfreda Markowska Alfreda Noncia Markowska (born May 10, 1926 near Stanisławów, now Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine) is a Polish-Romani woman who during World War II saved approximately fifty Jewish and Roma children from death in the Holocaust and the Porajmos genocide. Markowska was born in a travelling Polska Roma ""tabor"" (a mobile camp) in an area around Stanisławów, in the Kresy region of the Second Polish Republic. In 1939, the German invasion of Poland caught her in Lwów (Lviv). After the Soviet Union also invaded Poland as part of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact between Stalin and"
"in France and her involvement in scientific organizations and in the founding of the Paris and Warsaw Radium Institutes. The museum endeavors to stimulate and support the interest of scholars, students and the general public in the life and achievements of Maria Skłodowska-Curie. The museum is open Tuesday through Sunday, and closed on Mondays and Polish national holidays. Information may be obtained by email at ""muzeum.msc@neostrada.pl"". Maria Skłodowska-Curie Museum The Maria Skłodowska-Curie Museum () is a museum in Warsaw, Poland, devoted to the life and work of Polish two-time Nobel laureate Maria Skłodowska-Curie (1867–1934). The museum, which is sponsored by"
"annual, prize, in honor of Chlebowski, to the top medical graduate student at the Medical Academy in Bialystok. This prize was founded and is sponsored by Chlebowski's daughter, Dr. Irena Chlebowska-Bennett, an eye specialist who now lives in Sydney, Australia with her husband and two sons. The first laureate was Magdalena Mlonek, dentist, who was handed her prize in person by Dr. Irena Chlebowska-Bennett on campus during a ceremony held on 25 November 2005 in high Auli Medical University of Bialystok. Polonia Restituta has described Chlebowski as ""an institution whose principles are now tended by large numbers of his colleagues"
"Stefania Jabłońska Stefania Jabłońska (born Szela Ginzburg; 7 September 1920 – 8 May 2017) was a Polish physician and professor specializing in dermatology. She worked at the Medical University of Warsaw. In 1972, she theorized the association of human papilloma viruses with skin cancer in epidermodysplasia verruciformis. In 1978, Jabłońska and Gerard Orth at the Pasteur Institute discovered HPV-5 in skin cancer. Jabłońska was awarded the 1985 Robert Koch Prize. She is a recipient of the National Order of Merit and the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta. Szela Ginzburg was born in Warsaw. Later known as Stefania"
"Jakub Chlebowski Professor Dr. Jakub Chlebowski or Jakob Chlebowski (3 May 1905 in Liwenhof, Latvia – 25 January 1969 in Israel) was an esteemed Polish Jewish professor and doctor, scientist, researcher, lecturer, author, philanthropist, Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor of the Medical Academy in Bialystok, Poland (now the Medical University of Bialystok). Chlebowski received an honorary degree from the University of Montpellier in France. He was the author of dozens of scientific and research papers in French, German and Polish, and three ground-breaking medical textbooks. He graduated from the University of Vilnius in 1929. In the 1930s Chlebowski worked at the Department"
"Katarzyna Trembińska, a relative and the mother of his future wife, Oktawia Trembińska. Prus enrolled at a Lublin ""gymnasium"" (secondary school, where he was a student of Józef Skłodowski, grandfather of the future Nobel laureate Maria Skłodowska-Curie). Graduating on 30 June 1866, at nineteen he matriculated in the Warsaw University Department of Mathematics and Physics. In 1868, poverty forced him to break off his university studies. In 1869 he enrolled in the Forestry Department at the newly opened Agriculture and Forestry Institute in Puławy, a historic town where he had spent some of his childhood and which, 15 years later,"
"them on visits to Poland. She named the first chemical element that she discovered in 1898 ""polonium"", after her native country. Marie Curie died in 1934, aged 66, at a sanatorium in Sancellemoz (Haute-Savoie), France, of aplastic anemia from exposure to radiation in the course of her scientific research and in the course of her radiological work at field hospitals during World War I. Maria Skłodowska was born in Warsaw, in Congress Poland in the Russian Empire, on 7 November 1867, the fifth and youngest child of well-known teachers Bronisława, ""née"" Boguska, and Władysław Skłodowski. The elder siblings of Maria"
"to 5 Freta Street. The Maria Skłodowska-Curie Museum was established in 1967, by the Polish Chemical Society, on the centenary of the birth of the physicist-chemist. Participants in the museum's inauguration included the younger daughter and biographer of Maria Skłodowska-Curie, Eve Curie Labouisse; Eve's husband, the American politician and diplomat Henry Richardson Labouisse, Jr.; and nine Nobel Prize winners. The museum is housed in an 18th-century apartment building (the Łyszkiewicz apartment building) at Freta Street () 16 in Warsaw's ""New Town"". The building has been rebuilt several times. After Maria Skłodowska-Curie's death in 1934, a plaque was attached to the"
"She was married four times. Her fourth husband was a cinematographer and an Academy Award nominee Slawomir Idziak. She has three children. She is the mother of an actor Adam Wróblewski, known for his role in the autobiographical film by Janusz Majewski ""Mała matura 1947"" (2010). Maria Gładkowska Maria Gładkowska (born 16 September 1957 in Zielona Góra) is a Polish film, stage, and television actress. She gained critical acclaim in the 1980s that culminated in her Zbyszek Cybluski Award (1988). She portrayed Daisy, Princess of Pless, her breakthrough performance, in ""Magnat"" (1987) - which was included in the list of"
"Elżbieta Szydłowska Elżbieta Szydłowska, married surname ""Grabowska"" (1748 – 1 June 1810) was a member of the Polish gentry, a mistress and possibly the morganatic wife of the last King of Poland, Stanisław August Poniatowski. Elżbieta Szydłowska was a daughter of Teodor Szydłowski, voivode of Płock, a Polish nobleman, and his wife, Teresa Witkowska. In 1768 she married a Polish noble, General Jan Jerzy Grabowski (died 1789). Some of the children of this marriage are thought to have actually been children of the last Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth king, Stanisław August Poniatowski. In 1789, she became a widow and possibly entered into"
"ended up as the laureate. Eliza Orzeszkowa Eliza Orzeszkowa (6 June 1841 – 18 May 1910) was a Polish novelist and a leading writer of the Positivism movement during foreign Partitions of Poland. In 1905, together with Henryk Sienkiewicz she was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. She was born to a noble Pawłowski family in Milkowszczyzna, and died in Grodno (now in Belarus) nearby. At the age of sixteen, Eliza married Piotr Orzeszko, a Polish nobleman twice her own age, who was exiled to Siberia after the January Uprising of 1863. They were legally separated in 1869. She"
"Marie Skłodowska Curie, a pioneer radiation scientist, performed her groundbreaking research in Paris. The Revolution of 1905–1907 in Russian Poland, the result of many years of pent-up political frustrations and stifled national ambitions, was marked by political maneuvering, strikes and rebellion. The revolt was part of much broader disturbances throughout the Russian Empire associated with the general Revolution of 1905. In Poland, the principal revolutionary figures were Roman Dmowski and Józef Piłsudski. Dmowski was associated with the right-wing nationalist movement National Democracy, whereas Piłsudski was associated with the Polish Socialist Party. As the authorities re-established control within the Russian Empire,"
"aged 70 years. Her daughter Helene Adamowska became an actress and humanitarian under the name Helenka Pantaleoni. Her son Tadeusz Adamowski became an athlete at Harvard University, and went on to play ice hockey for Poland in the 1928 Winter Olympics, before serving in the Polish army during World War II. Both of her children were active on behalf of UNICEF later in their lives. Actress Téa Leoni is the great-granddaughter of Antoinette Szumowska. Antoinette Szumowska Antoinette Szumowska (February 22, 1868 — August 16, 1938), originally Antonina Szumowska, later Antoinette Szumowska-Adamowska, was a Polish pianist and piano teacher. Antonina Szumowska"
"in B-flat major, Op. 7 No. 1 and of the autograph of the composer. The reverse of the note shows a facsimile of a fragment of Étude in f-minor, Op. 10, No. 9, against a landscape with willows, characteristic of the Central Poland region. Designed by Grzegorz Pfeifer and Katarzyna Jarnuszkiewicz, and printed by the Polish Security Printing Works, it measures 138 x 69 mm. The security features of the banknote are: To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the awarding of the Nobel Prize in chemistry to Marie Skłodowska-Curie the National Bank of Poland has issued a collector banknote of"
"Stefan Żeromski Stefan Żeromski ( ; 14 October 1864 – 20 November 1925) was a Polish novelist and dramatist. He was called the ""conscience of Polish literature"". He also wrote under the pen names Maurycy Zych, Józef Katerla and Stefan Iksmoreż. He was nominated four times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Stefan Żeromski was born on 14 October 1864 at Strawczyn, near Kielce. On 2 September 1892, he married a widow, Oktawia Rodkiewiczowa, ""née"" Radziwiłłowiczówna, whom he had met at a spa in Nałęczów, co-owned by her stepfather. One of the witnesses at the wedding was the novelist Bolesław"
"Wisława Szymborska Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska (2 July 1923 – 1 February 2012) was a Polish poet, essayist, translator and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Prowent, which has since become part of Kórnik, she later resided in Kraków until the end of her life. In Poland, Szymborska's books have reached sales rivaling prominent prose authors: although she once remarked in a poem, ""Some Like Poetry"" (""Niektórzy lubią poezję""), that no more than two out of a thousand people care for the art. Szymborska was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature ""for poetry that with"
"Lucia Dlugoszewski Lucia Dlugoszewski (June 16, 1931 – April 11, 2000) was a Polish-American composer, performer and inventor. She created over a hundred musical instruments, including the timbre piano, a sort of prepared piano in which hammers and keys were replaced with bows and plectra. The daughter of Polish immigrants, Dlugoszewski was born and raised in Detroit. She studied piano at the Detroit Conservatory of Music and was a pre-medical student at Wayne State University, where she also took physics courses. Surprised and disappointed by an unsuccessful application to medical school in 1950, Dlugoszewski spontaneously moved to New York City,"
"as well. The following taxa have been named after him: Jerzy Rzedowski Jerzy Rzedowski Rotter (born December 27, 1926) is a Mexican botanist. He was born in Lwów, Poland (now in Ukraine). While he was young he was made prisoner by the Germans. He remained in a concentration camp until World War II finished and he was liberated by the Allies. He then travelled to Mexico looking for a more peaceful country. He studied a bachelor's degree in Biology at the Instituto Politecnico Nacional and a PhD in Botany at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. His thesis on the Flora"
"Iwona Stroynowski Iwona Teresa Stroynowski née Fleszar (born 1950) is a Polish-born American immunologist who is Professor in the Department of Immunology and Microbiology at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas,TX. She discovered the process of gene expression control called attenuation early in her career, the first example of a riboswitch mechanism. Stroynowski received a PhD from Stanford University in 1979 in the field of Genetics under the supervision of Joshua Lederberg. She became an American citizen in 1982. At Stanford, working with Charles Yanofsky, she discovered the attenuation system regulating bacterial amino acid synthesis pathways. Stroynowski undertook"
"him, he opened his own 'Stojowski Studios' at his four-story brownstone home at 150 West 76th Street in Manhattan. Among Stojowski's pupils were Mischa Levitzki, Alfred Newman, Antonia Brico, Arthur Loesser, and Oscar Levant. Here, together with his Peruvian-born wife, Luisa Morales-Macedo, the pianist/composer not only taught until the end of the 1930s, but also raised what he called his ""three best compositions"": his sons, Alfred (1919), Henry (1921) and Ignace (1923–1984). He died on November 5, 1946 in New York City. Zygmunt Stojowski Zygmunt Denis Antoni Jordan de Stojowski (May 4, 1870November 5, 1946) was a Polish pianist and"
"the daughter of Wladyslaw and Helena (née Baranski) Rostropowicz. Joanna, the mother of Tomasz Malinowski (b. 1965), received a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and is a writer. Together, they were the parents of: In 2000, Clark died at his home in Princeton, New Jersey at the age of 82. Blair Clark Ledyard Blair Clark (August 22, 1917 – June 6, 2000) was an American liberal journalist and political activist who played key roles both as a journalist and a political operator. He was general manager and vice president of CBS News from 1961 to 1964, and later became"
"Manuela Gretkowska Manuela Gretkowska (6 October 1964) is a Polish writer, screenwriter, feminist and politician. She is the founder of the Feminist Initiative Manuela Gretkowska was born in Łódź and studied philosophy at Jagiellonian University in Kraków. In 1988 she left Poland to live in Paris, where she studied anthropology at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales. In the early 1990s, she returned to her country, where she was deputy editor-in-chief and then literary director at Elle. She wrote columns for Elle, Cosmopolitan, Wprost, Polityka, Machina, and Cogito. Gretkowska's literary debut was the novel ""We Are Immigrants Here"
"is, above all, a moving and insightful saga about women, entangled in history."""" Żanna Słoniowska Żanna Słoniowska (; born in Lviv, 1978) is a Ukrainian-born Polish novelist and journalist. She was the first winner of the Znak literary prize for her novel ""The House with the Stained-Glass Window"" and a Conrad Prize winner. Słoniowska was born in Lviv in 1978, in a family with Polish antecedents. She attended the Ukrainian Academy of Printing, following which she worked as a journalist for the television channel NTA. In 2002, she moved to Poland. She began doctoral studies in Warsaw's University of Social"