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
Irène Joliot-Curie Prize Irène Joliot-Curie Prize The Irène Joliot-Curie Prize is a French prize for women in science and technology, founded in 2001 by the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation. It is named after French scientist Irène Joliot-Curie. It should be distinguished from a different prize with the same name, offered since 1956 by the Société Française de Physique. Each year three awards are given: one for the female scientist of the year, a second to a young female scientist, and a third to a woman in business and technology. In addition, in early years of the award a fourth category