In the late 1950s, new nuclear physics and radiobiology laboratories opened at Orsay (in the Essonne region), under the impetus of Irène and Frédéric Joliot-Curie.

A government subsidy made that hospital a reality in 1936, and it was extended 10 years later thanks to an anonymous Canadian donor. Meanwhile, the influx of patients to the dispensary made it clear that a hospital was urgently needed. So-called “artificial” radioactivity would come to be a formidable tool for scientific and medical uses of radiation such as imaging, diagnosis and radiotherapy, and it earned them the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1935. In 1934, shortly before Marie Curie’s death, her daughter Irène and son-in-law Frédéric Joliot-Curie synthesized new radioactive elements at the Institut du Radium. In 1929 she was provided with a second gram of radium by American donors she donated it to the University of Warsaw in Poland. In 1921, there was a collection in the United States to give Marie Curie a gram of radium needed for her research. The Curie laboratory was internationally renowned for research in physics and chemistry researchers from all around the world came to be trained by Marie Curie. This pioneering center for radiotherapy immediately became a model for new cancer centers in France and abroad. Claudius Regaud and his team developed innovative treatments combining surgery and brand-new radiotherapy methods to treat cancer. In synergy with the Curie laboratory, Dr. The Curie Foundation was also behind the opening of a dispensary on the rue d’Ulm in 1922. Its purpose was to finance the research activities of the Institut du Radium and allow medical applications to be offered to patients under optimum conditions. The Curie Foundation, created in 1920 under the dual patronage of the Institut du Radium and the Institut Pasteur with financial backing from Henri de Rothschild, was recognized as a public-interest institution the following year. This well-known research-care continuum, developed by Marie Curie and Claudius Regaud, is still the hallmark of Institut Curie a century later, and its innovations are based on this fundamental mainstay.

Once the war ended and they settled into their respective laboratories, Marie Curie and Claudius Regaud proposed a general development project for the Institut du Radium, where research and therapeutic applications would be closely linked. Today, she remains the only woman to have ever won two Nobel Prizes. This time it was for chemistry, awarded for her work in isolating metallic radium and determining its atomic mass. In 1911, while her future laboratory was being built on the rue Pierre-Curie in Paris’ 5th arrondisssement, Marie Curie won her second Nobel Prize. Claudius Regaud and devoted to studying the biological effects and medical applications of radioactivity. The set-up was very original for its time: the Institut du Radium featured the Curie laboratory, directed by Marie Curie and entirely devoted to physics and chemistry research, and the Pasteur laboratory, directed by Dr.

The goal was to study radioactivity and its applications in physics, chemistry, biology and medicine.

12 December 1909: The University of Paris and Institut Pasteur decided to build the Institut du Radium for Marie Curie, winner of the 1903 Nobel Prize for physics along with her husband Pierre Curie and their colleague Henri Becquerel, for their work on radioactivity. This laboratory was set up just a few streets away from the “hangar” at the school of industrial chemistry and physics, where Pierre and Marie Curie discovered radioactivity along with polonium and radium in 1898.

American radium laboratories