title: Marie Curie's contribution to Medical Physics.
abstract: On occasion of its 50th anniversary, the International Organization for Medical Physics (IOMP) from now on is going to celebrate annually an International Day of Medical Physics for which the 7th November, the birthday of Marie Sklodowska Curie, a most exceptional character in science at all and a pioneer of medical physics, has been chosen. This article briefly outlines her outstanding personality, sketches her fundamental discovery of radioactivity and emphasizes the impact of her various achievements on the development of medical physics at large.
authors: Medical Physics Department, Institut Curie, 26, rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris, France. jean-claude.rosenwald@curie.net
authors: Rosenwald
authors: R
authors: Jean-Claude
authors: Fridtjof
authors: F
authors: Nüsslin
mesh_terms: D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D007221:Industry / Q000266:history; D007753:Laboratories; D009683:Nuclear Medicine / Q000266:history*; D010551:Personality; D010825:Physics / Q000266:history*; D011883:Radium
chemical_list: D011883:Radium