Marie Curie but she declined, focusing on the developing Radium Institute to be completed in August 1914, and on a new street named Rue Pierre-Curie. She was appointed Director of the Curie Laboratory in the Radium Institute of the University of Paris, founded in 1914. She visited Poland in 1913 and was welcomed in Warsaw but the visit was mostly ignored by the Russian authorities. The Institute's development was interrupted by the coming war, as most researchers were drafted into the French Army, and it fully resumed its activities in 1919. During World War I, Curie recognised that wounded soldiers were best
Marie Curie (charity) a staggering £30,000 and two years later the Marie Curie Memorial Foundation officially became a charity - number 207994. An extensive nationwide survey was undertaken to help identify medical, nursing and research needs in relation to cancer. The results formed the basis of the work of the Foundation and, largely, still do today. The Executive Board delegate the day-to-day management of Marie Curie to their Chief Executive, Dr Jane Collins, who appoints the Executive Board, made up of the charity’s most senior managers. Who are:- Dr Jane Collins (Chief Executive) Jude Bridge(Executive Director, Marketing, Fundraising and Public Affairs) Caroline Hamblett