1891
Moves to Paris
Leaves Warsaw to study at the University of Paris.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Paris in Poland. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Leaves Warsaw to study at the University of Paris.
Completes a physics degree at the University of Paris.
Completes further mathematical studies in Paris.
Begins studying Becquerel rays for her doctoral work.
Gives birth to her daughter Irene Curie.
Measures uranium minerals while developing the concept of radioactivity.
Uses radioactivity to describe emissions from uranium and thorium.
Announces polonium with Pierre Curie.
Announces radium with Pierre Curie and Gustave Bemont.
Finds pitchblende more radioactive than uranium alone.
Shows pitchblende contains a substance far more radioactive than uranium.
Names polonium after Poland, her native country.
Determines radium properties from purified radium chloride.
Separates radium salts and determines radium properties during doctoral research.
Leaves the radium isolation process unpatented for open scientific use.
Receives her doctorate for research on radioactive substances.
Continues isolating radium compounds after the Nobel Prize.
Gives birth to Eve Curie, her second daughter.
Succeeds Pierre Curie in his Sorbonne chair.
Gives her first lecture as Sorbonne professor.
Becomes a full professor at the Sorbonne.
Supports plans for a dedicated radium research institute.
Produces radium as a pure metal with Andre Debierne.
Is hospitalised after severe strain following her second Nobel Prize.
Returns gradually to scientific work after illness and controversy.
Provides a foundational theorem concerning Peano continua and space-filling curves.
Co-establishes conditions characterizing continuous images of an interval.
Continues work on radium standards for scientific measurement.
Organises mobile radiography units for wartime medical service.
The Paris Radium Institute opens as war begins.
Returns the Radium Institute to peacetime research after the war.
Publishes on radiology experiences from the war.
Heads the Polish delegation at the Paris Peace Conference
Develops the Curie laboratory as a centre for radioactivity research.
Is elected to the French Academy of Medicine.
Birth of Roman Polanski
Tries to assassinate the German Ambassador in Paris but shoots Ernst vom Rath
Used by the Nazis as another excuse for Kristallnacht
Represents the Polish Cipher Bureau at the January allied cryptanalytic meeting in Paris.
Attends the January Paris meeting while Poland initially withholds the full extent of its Enigma success.
Heads the Polish Government in exile, 1939-1943
Meets Turing in France and discusses Polish Enigma methods after the Cipher Bureau's evacuation.
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