Maria Skłodowska-Curie Monument

The statue of Maria Skłodowska-Curie (Pomnik Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie) is a bronze statue in Warsaw, Poland, located within the New Town neighbourhood of the Downtown district. It is dedicated to Maria Skłodowska-Curie, a 19th- and 20th-century physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity and was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, as well as the first person to win a Nobel Prize twice. The statue was designed by Bronisław Krzysztof and unveiled on 4 June 2014. It is placed near the intersection of Kościelna and Piesza Streets, in front of the Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary at 2 Przyrynek Street, and near the tenement at 16 Freta Street, where Skłodowska-Curie was born and grew up.

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