Demolition of Marie Curie’s laboratory in Paris has been temporarily suspended as campaigners fight to have the building marked as a historic monument.
The laboratory of the Nobel prize-winning scientist, located at No26 rue d’Ulm in the Latin Quarter of Paris, was supposed to be bulldozed to the ground Monday, but French Culture Minister Rima Abdul Malak acted to prevent it.
Malak announced the demolition would be “suspended” after he consulted with the property’s owner, The Curie Institute, to examine “possible alternatives,” The Guardian reported.
The last-minute intervention came after the public pleaded with President Emmanuel Macron and other government ministries to preserve the laboratory and the surrounding lime trees and fields planted by Curie.
The head of the campaign, Baptiste Gianeselli, called the last-minute news “fantastic,” but said the work was not done.
The laboratory of the Nobel prize-winning scientist, located at No26 rue d’Ulm in the Latin Quarter of Paris, was supposed to be bulldozed to the ground Monday, but French Culture Minister Rima Abdul Malak acted to prevent it. Chemistry World
“The threat does not disappear completely as long as the building is not classified as a historical monument. So we have to keep the pressure on,” he said, according to The Guardian. “If Emmanuel Macron does not understand that it is not just a historic building but one of the last symbols of Marie Curie, the most famous woman of our era, it will be a very serious mistake. It is unthinkable.”
Gianeselli argued that buildings associated with Louis Pasteur – a French chemist – were protected, so he believed Curie should be too.
Claudine Monteil, who has written a book about the scientist, said Curie was “an inspiration to women everywhere,” and that her laboratory was a “world heritage” site.
Malak announced the demolition would be “suspended” after he consulted with the property’s owner, The Curie Institute, to examine “possible alternatives.” Chemistry World
“I think they don’t realize what it means symbolically. Marie Curie is the most famous female scientist in the world and is a reference and inspiration,” he said.
Curie had moved to France at the age of 24 to study at the Sorbonne, where she would later become a professor.
The scientist is best known for her and her husband’s discovery of radium from uranium, which won them the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903. She won a second Nobel Prize in Chemistry a few years later.
The scientist is best known for her and her husband’s discovery of radium from uranium, which won them the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903. She won a second Nobel Prize in Chemistry a few years later. Hulton Archives
His laboratory was built in 1909 in collaboration with the Institut Pasteur and the University of Paris.
The building facing demolition is one of three buildings that make up the Radium Institute – now known as the Curie Institute. He used it to prepare radioactive material for his research.
While serving in Paris, he developed a portable X-ray unit and helped develop radiation for cancer treatment.
Curie’s holiday home in Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse was bought by a Polish billionaire in 2022 a year after the Polish government announced it wanted to buy the property. AP Dominika Kulczyk bought the house, which is located near Paris, will establish a House of Sisterhood in the house after it is restored. It will be a meeting and workplace for marginalized women across Europe. AP
Curie’s holiday home in Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse was bought by a Polish billionaire in 2022 a year after the Polish government announced it wanted to buy the property.
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