Marie Curie them on visits to Poland. She named the first chemical element that she discovered in 1898 "polonium", after her native country. Marie Curie died in 1934, aged 66, at a sanatorium in Sancellemoz (Haute-Savoie), France, of aplastic anemia from exposure to radiation in the course of her scientific research and in the course of her radiological work at field hospitals during World War I. Maria Skłodowska was born in Warsaw, in Congress Poland in the Russian Empire, on 7 November 1867, the fifth and youngest child of well-known teachers Bronisława, "née" Boguska, and Władysław Skłodowski. The elder siblings of Maria
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,