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Maria Sklodowska Curie

L'ostinata abnegazione di un genio
  • Luigi Dei,

In 1911, the Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded to Marie Curie, eight years after she had received the Nobel Prize for Physics. An extraordinary scientific adventure ended, and the deification of an iconic character and symbol of the amazing transformations of costume which would characterize the following decades began to take root. During the transfer of the Curies’ remains to the Pantheon, Pierre Gilles de Gennes wanted to underline Marie’s "beauty of self-denial". The Christmas Lecture pays tribute to the dual inheritance which she left us: the strength of scientific rationality against the obscurantism of beliefs and gender equality. The conference traces the most relevant aspects of Marie Curie's life, sharing her extraordinary scientific discoveries, but also underlining socio-cultural and customary aspects and highlighting the historical context of an era which was tumultuously changing.

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Luigi Dei

University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-1654-3603

Luigi Dei is an internationally renowned scholar of materials chemistry. He is also Director of the "Ugo Schiff" Department of Chemistry of the University of Florence, as well as President of OpenLab, the University of Florence's educational and scientific dissemination service. He is the author of several scientific publications in international journals, and also works in the fields of scientific dissemination and of the relationship between science, art and literature. In this context, he was the author of show-conferences on science and music, and of a civil-scientific drama inspired by Primo Levi.
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Bibliographic Information

Book Title

Maria Sklodowska Curie

Book Subtitle

L'ostinata abnegazione di un genio

Authors

Luigi Dei

Peer Reviewed

Number of Pages

62

Publication Year

2013

Copyright Information

© 2013 Author(s)

Content License

CC BY-ND 3.0 IT

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Firenze University Press

DOI

10.36253/978-88-6655-333-5

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978-88-6655-332-8

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978-88-6655-333-5

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978-88-6655-334-2

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978-88-9273-516-3

Series Title

Lectio Magistralis

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2612-7725

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2704-5935

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