Vo5N2-Spring 2022

To contribute actively to the rebirth of Nuclear Medicine, we should be inspired by the illustrious, remarkable and exemplary life and professional achievements of Marie Curie whom we consider the mother of Nuclear Medicine. For her pioneered work and discovery of radioactivity, a term that Marie Curie and her husband Pierre Curie coined in their
publications, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded in 1903 Marie Curie, her husband Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Her daughter, Irene Joliot-Curie, who followed her mother’s steps also received with her husband, Frederic Joliot, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Marie Curie, her husband
and Henri Becquerel were awarded in 1903, the Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of artificial radioactivity.