Yücel KANPOLAT 16 October 2008

1. FOUNDER SCIENCE EDUCATION “Maria Skłodovska Curie” Yücel KANPOLAT 16 October 2008

2. INDUSTRY SOCIETY INFORMATION SOCIETY AGRICULTURE SOCIETY

3. SCIENCE SOCIETY INFORMATION AGE SCIENCE AGE BRAIN DECADE DIGITAL SOCIETY / AGE

4. SCIENCE EDUCATION 1988 Nobel Laurate Leon Lederman-Chicago American Academy of Sciences-Smithsonian Institute 1992 Georges Charpack, Pierre Léna, Yves Quéré La Main à la pâte 2002 TUBA 2006 TUBA 2007 TUBA Ministry of National Education (MEB), State Planning Organization (DPT)

5. Maria Skłodovska Curie 7 November 1867 Warsaw

6. Bronislava Skłodovska Catholic, Teacher of Music Wladyslaw Skłodovska Teacher of Physics Nationalist of Poland Russian Invasion Retirement Loss of Retirement Bonus Moves to Poland Ghetto Freta, 16

7. Zofia, Helena, Maria, Jozef, Bronislava

8. Death of elder sister due to typhus (6) Death of mother due to tuberculosis (11) Guiltiness feeling of the father Emotionally and mentally supported close family “God who saves his men ?”

9. 1873, Primary School 1877, Secondary School - Russian 1883, Graduation with Gold Medal

10. 1884, Flying University 1886-89, Governess 1890-91, Physics Laboratory, Warsaw 1891, Warsaw, Paris 4th class, 4000 liras

11. HEROIC ERA 1893 Physics Master 1894 Mathematics 1894 Scholarship Reimbursement 1895 Doctorate

12. Pierre Curie Dr. Eugene Curie inspired in his son a “Love for science and mathematics” 16, Student in Sorbonne 19, Graduation from Sorbonne 19, Assistant 23, Professor in Physics and Chemistry High School, 1882

14. X IŞINLARI W. Conrad Roentgen 5 November 1895

15. X-RAYS Henry Becquerel Photograph in an unlit room Lights darkening her films Radioactivitiy Pierre Curie, Maria H. Becquerel

18. Pierre & Maria Curie Irene Eve

20. Irene Eve Private education for the children

22. Relationship between fluor rays and roentgen Photograph film – sunless Paris Radioactivity Wooden building in the school garden used as warehouse 8 tons of mineral ore Polonium - radium

24. Negative results after crystallization Tales for Irene Suddenly running to laboratory

26. 1903 Nobel Physics Prize Becquerel, Pierre-Maria Curie

27. RADIOTHERAPY – INTERSTITIAL BRACHYTHERAPY Patent Science is not for sale Shared

28. 19 April 1906

29. 19 April 1906 Death of Pierre Curie Move of Eugene Curie

30. Maria’s earrings

31. Chairmanship in Sorbonne Refusal of membership application to French Academy of Sciences Unfair publications about relations with Paul Langevin in French press Pure metal radium 1911 Nobel Chemistry Prize

32. World War I No roentgen equipment in the army Production of roentgen apparatus with Nobel Prize 200 portable roentgen machines School of Roentgen Technicians 150 technicians

33. Irene Curie Nurse Technician Driver Teacher 1935 Nobel (Chemistry) Prize

34. Radium Institute after the war A new laboratory in Sorbonne “Please transmit my appreciation to the Minister and inform him that I absolutely do not need an ounce of a jewellery but amazingly need a laboratory.”

35. William Brown Meloney, Editor of Delineator 1 gram Radium Campaign

36. 20 May 1921 Warren Harding 1 gram radium for Paris Radium Institute

38. Even now, after 25 years of intensive research, we feel there is a great deal still to be done. We have made many discoveries. Pierre Curie in the suggestions, we have found in his notes and in thoughts he expressed to me has helped to guide us to them. But no one of us can do much. At each of us perhaps can catch some gleam of knowledge which modest and insufficient of itself may add to men’s dream of truth. It is by these small candles in our darkness that we see before us, little by little the dim outlines of that great plan that shapes the universe. And I’m among those who think that for this reason science has great beauty and with it’s great spiritual strength will in time cleanse this world of it’s evils, it’s ignorance, it’s powerty, diseases, wars and heartaches. Look for the clear ligh of truth, look for unknown new roads. Even when men’s sight is keener far then now divine wonder will never fail him. Every age has it’s own dreams, leave then dreams of yesterday. You take the torch of the knowledge and build the palace of a future.

39. 4 July 1934 Paris Aplastic anemia 20 April 1995 Marie-Pierre Curie Pantheon Paris

40. About Living “You have to take living seriously, in such a way, to such extent, for instance, your hands tied behind you, your back to the wall, or wearing thick spectacles and white robe, in a laboratory, you must be willing to die for other people, even those whose faces you have never seen, although nobody has forcedr you to do this and although you know that living is the most beautiful and the most genuine thing” Nazim Hikmet, 1948