Special event on Wednesday

Special event on the evening of Wednesday July 24, 2013 (time to be announced soon), Ettlingen Stadthalle:

"Marie Curie and her time"

A talk by Prof Hélène Langevin-Joliot, Institut de Physique Nucléaire, Orsay

ABSTRACT:
Marie Curie was a major actor of the scientific revolution that opened the microscopic world to scientific investigations. A women scientist in a male-dominated society, she was often considered to be just an assistant to her husband: she is today a nearly mythic figure.
The talk will evoke her research works, the discovery of Polonium and Radium in 1898 with Pierre Curie, the first stone in the foundation of radiochemistry, her two Nobel Prizes, and the creation of the Radium Institute.
It will also evoke her personality, and those decisive events in her life's story, which cannot be separated from her scientific achievements.


Hélène Langevin-Joliot is honorary Research Director at the CNRS. She has worked in experimental nuclear physics mainly at the Nuclear Physics Institute at Orsay, where she was in charge of the Nuclear Physics Experimental Department.
She is the grand-daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie and the daughter of Frederic Joliot and Irene Curie. She married Michel Langevin, the grand-son of Paul Langevin. She involves herself in initiatives for more scientific culture and improved relationships between society and science and modern technology, and is the President of Union Nationalist.

The talk will be followed by an Opera recital featuring Norma Raccichini (Soprano), accompanied by (to be announced). A programme of the recital will be available soon.