Polish billionaire Dominika Kulczyk has bought a property in suburban Paris that was frequently visited by Polish scientist and Nobel Prize winner Maria Skłodowska-Curie. Kulczyk plans to turn the site into a “House of Sisterhood” that will act as “a meeting and work space for exceptional women from all over Europe”, announced her charitable foundation. She remains the only person to have won Nobel Prizes in two scientific fields. The two of them jointly won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 for their pioneering work on radioactivity (a word coined by Skłodowska-Curie herself). “The home of the Polish Nobel Prize winner belongs to all mankind and is a natural meeting place for women whose work transcends all the barriers we know.

Source: The Guardian June 07, 2022 19:58 UTC