Polish billionaire Dominika Kulczyk has purchased a property in suburban Paris that was continuously visited by Polish scientist and Nobel Prize winner Maria Skłodowska-Curie.
Kulczyk plans to show the location right into a “Home of Sisterhood” that can act as “a gathering and work area for distinctive ladies from throughout Europe”, introduced her charitable basis.
“Maria Skłodowska-Curie proved along with her life that limitations don’t exist,” wrote Kulczyk. “She confirmed that ladies could be leaders in probably the most tough fields of science. They will present the instructions the world will take for many years. She turned an emblem of feminine power and a harbinger of nice change.”
Born Maria Skłodowska in Congress Poland – a state successfully underneath Russian management – in 1867, Skłodowska-Curie went on to develop into one in all historical past’s best scientists. She stays the one individual to have gained Nobel Prizes in two scientific fields.
Having moved to France in her twenties, she enrolled on the College of Paris in 1891 and it was in that metropolis that she met her fellow scientist and future husband Pierre Curie. The 2 of them collectively gained the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 for his or her pioneering work on radioactivity (a phrase coined by Skłodowska-Curie herself).
After Pierre’s demise in a avenue accident in 1906, Skłodowska-Curie continued her analysis, occurring to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911 for her discovery of the weather radium and polonium.
Polish scientist Marie Skłodowska Curie, the one individual ever to have gained a Nobel Prize in two totally different sciences, has been voted as the lady who had the most important influence on world historical past in a ballot by the BBC’s @HistoryExtra journal https://t.co/yFKD9F9SgN
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Final yr, a home in Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse the place Marie, Pierre and their daughters Eve and Irene spent summer time holidays and weekends between 1904 and 1906 was put up on the market. Initially the Polish authorities introduced that it could search the purchase the property, however Kulczyk has now accomplished so as an alternative.
“We need to honour the legacy of Maria Skłodowska-Curie,” she mentioned. “The house of the Polish Nobel Prize winner belongs to all mankind and is a pure assembly place for girls whose work transcends all of the obstacles we all know. I would really like this place to be vibrant once more, serving European science and tradition.”
Kulczyk’s basis has introduced that the primary knowledgeable value determinations of the situation of the constructing, which is listed as a French historic monument, and essential works have already begun. Their completion is deliberate for 2025.
Polish authorities affords to purchase Marie Skłodowska-Curie home in France
Amongst members of Kulczyk’s “Sisterhood” mission are Polish movie director Agnieszka Holland and Iryna Deszczyca, the spouse of the Ukrainian ambassador to Poland. The group has already been searching for to assist ladies and kids fleeing the warfare in Ukraine, stories Wysokie Obcasy.
Dominika Kulczyk is a Polish businesswoman, co-founder and the president of the Kulczyk Basis, and the daughter of Jan Kulczyk, who was Poland’s richest man till his demise in 2015. She was final yr ranked by Forbes because the nation’s fifth richest individual, with an estimated wealth of seven.6 billion zloty (€1.7 billion).
Alicja Ptak is senior editor at Notes from Poland and a multimedia journalist. She beforehand labored for Reuters.
