POSTE SRPSKE AD will issue third stamp this year:
100 years of Nobel Prize - Marie Curie - on 08.March 2011. There is 1 stamp is set. Face value is 1,50 KM (0,77€).
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Maria Sklodowska Curie was born in 1867 in Warsaw, the fifth child in a teaching family. Her mother suffered from tuberculosis and died when Mary was 12 years. Her father was a free views, while the mother was a zealous Catholic. Finishing high school in 1883, with older sister Bronjislava signed an agreement that will financially support during her medical studies in Paris, in exchange for her sister begins to assist financially in the same way, for two years. Due to an agreement with her sister Mary is employed as teacher for small children.
In 1891 Mary is in Paris, in the Sorbonne registered as students in the department of physics and chemistry, and she also worked. In 1893 has passed as the first in a generation. She worked and continued studying, passing mathematics also in 1894. That year she met her future husband, Frenchman Pierre Curie.
In her greatest achievements include work on the theory of radioactivity, radioactive isotope separation techniques and the discovery of two new chemical elements - the radon and polonium. Under her personal supervision was carried out, first in the world, research about the possibility of healing cancer with radioactivity. She was one of the founders of a new branch of chemistry – radiochemistry. She was a double winner of the Nobel Prize, the first time in 1903 of physics, along with her husband and Henry Becquerel for scientific advances in the study of radioactivity, and the second time in 1911 of chemistry, for the separation of elemental radon. She has remained the only woman to have won the Nobel Prize twice.
Mary died in 1934 of aplastic anemia, which is almost certainly as result of exposure to radiation, because the harmful effects of ionizing radiation were not yet known . Mary and Pierre older daughter Irene was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935, and younger daughter Eve wrote her mother's biography “Madame Curie”.
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Vladimir Racic