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Marie Curie

File:Mariecurie.jpg

Original - Portrait of Marie Curie (November 7, 1867 – July 4, 1934), sometime prior to 1907. Curie and her husband Pierre shared a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903. Working together, she and her husband isolated Polonium. Pierre died in 1907, but Marie continued her work, namely with Radium, and received a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911. Her death is mainly attributed to excess exposure to radiation.

Reason

Tremendous EV, completely irreplaceable. Best image we have of her, IMO.

Articles this image appears in

Marie Curie, List of Nobel laureates in Chemistry & the Physics equivalent, List of Poles, Warsaw

Creator

Unknown

• Support as nominator --Ceran^→//forge 22:56, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
  • Comment I see no Pierre. ~ ωαdεstεr16_«talk^stalk» 23:02, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
    • Comment Whole thing needed a rewrite, so I did; and transcribed it to the image page at Commons. ~ ωαdεstεr16_«talk^stalk» 23:19, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
• Support - Not very flattering; looks a bit like a death photo. But good quality and high EV nonetheless. ~ ωαdεstεr16_«talk^stalk» 23:19, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
• Support highly encyclopedic. Durova^Charge! 05:22, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
• Support quite a haunting image. --➨♀♂Candlewicke _S^T _# :) 17:44, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
• Support A timeless black and white image. --Leoboudv (talk) 01:59, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Promoted Image:Mariecurie.jpg --jjron (talk) 12:48, 27 February 2009 (UTC)