The Most Wanted Physics-Related Stamp (Michel 998)

The Turkish stamp presented here, issued in 1938, featuring Marie Sklodowska-Curie is perhaps the most wanted one related to physics.

MARIE SKLODOWSKA-CURIE

Born on Nov. 7, 1867 in Warsaw, Poland (those times Russian Empire).
Died as a result of leukemia caused by the action of radiationon on July 4, 1934, near Sallanches, France.

Famous for her work on radioactivity. Together with her husband, Pierre Curie, she discovered polonium (so called by Marie in honour of her native land) in the summer of 1898, and radium a few months later. In 1903 she shared (with Henri Becquerel and Pierre Curie) the Nobel Prize for Physics for the discovery of radioactivity. In 1911 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, for the isolation of pure radium.

Her contribution to physics was immense, not only in her own work, the importance of which was demonstrated by awarding her two Nobel Prizes, but because of her influence on the next generations of nuclear physicists and chemists.

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December 15, 2001