Marie Curie Her Paris laboratory is preserved as the Musée Curie, open since 1992. Several works of art bear her likeness. In 1935, Michalina Mościcka, wife of Polish President Ignacy Mościcki, unveiled a statue of Marie Curie before Warsaw's Radium Institute. During the 1944 Second World War Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi German occupation, the monument was damaged by gunfire; after the war it was decided to leave the bullet marks on the statue and its pedestal. In 1955 Jozef Mazur created a stained glass panel of her, the Maria Skłodowska-Curie Medallion, featured in the University at Buffalo Polish Room. A number
Marie Curie Fellows Association the European Commission. During its first three years the Association received a generous support from the European Commission. At the same time the "Marie Curie Fellowships Unit" at the Directorate-General for Research of the European Commission supported the Association with advice and logistical help. In 1999, the MCFA was awarded UNESCO's Niels Bohr Medal at the occasion of the World Conference on Science (Budapest 26 June - 1 July 1999). All activities of the MCFA are co-ordinated on the international level. The running of the Association lies in the hands of the Administrative Board that is elected by the members