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Encyclopedia > Curie Institute

The Curie Institute is a private non-profit foundation operating a research center on biophysics, cell biology and oncology and a hospital (Hôpital Claudius Régaud) specialized in treatment of cancer. It is located in Paris, France.


It was founded by Marie Curie and Claudius Regaud and recognized of public usefulness in 1921.


The Institute also operates the proton therapy center at Orsay, one of the few such facilities in the world.


External links

  • Official site of the Curie Institute (http://www.curie.fr)

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Marie Curie (1628 words)
Marie Curie was born Marya Sklodowska, the fifth and youngest child of Bronsitwa Boguska, a pianist, singer, and teacher, and Ladislas Sklodowski, a professor of mathematics and physics.
By 1914, Curie was the head of two laboratories, one in her native Warsaw and one at the Sorbonne, known as the Radium Institute.
Curie also lent her name to the cause for world peace by serving on the council of the League of Nations and on its international committee on intellectual cooperation.
Marie Curie (3958 words)
Curie and her collaborators in physics and mathematics; the Pasteur Pavillion, for the medical associates of Claudius Regaud (1870-1940) in radiophysiology and radiotherapy.
Curie gave herself to the efficient organization and operation of a fleet of radioligic ambulances, and the training of the ncessary technologists, carrying the possibility of flouroscopy and radiography to the various fronts.
Curie to its membership without the customary application and interviews of the candidate: rather than an election it was a belated homage proposed by the Academecians led by Antoine Béclère.
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