Marie Curie PH-KCC) is named in her honour. Several institutions bear her name, starting with the two Curie institutes: the Maria Skłodowska–Curie Institute of Oncology, in Warsaw and the "Institut Curie" in Paris. She is the patron of Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, in Lublin, founded in 1944; and of Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris VI), France's pre-eminent science university. In Britain, Marie Curie Cancer Care was organized in 1948 to care for the terminally ill. Two museums are devoted to Marie Curie. In 1967, the Maria Skłodowska-Curie Museum was established in Warsaw's "New Town", at her birthplace on "ulica Freta" (Freta Street).
Maurizio Prato (scientist) materials tearing down the traditional barriers between Chemistry and other disciplines such as Physics, Biology and Medicine. His philosophy has very frequently been transmitted to the members of his group, who were able to grow in a “multilingual” laboratory. Of the numerous students and postdoctoral fellows that have worked in his laboratory, the majority of which financially supported by EU RTN or Marie-Curie networks, many have a current successful academic career. Maurizio Prato (scientist) Maurizio Prato (born in Lecce October 11, 1953), is an Italian Organic Chemist, who is best known for his work on the functionalization of carbon nanostructures,