On 9 Thursday, the Faculty of Physics of the Universitat de València has paid tribute to Marie Sklodowska Curie on the 150th anniversary of her birth. And they did it with a talk by Berta Rubio, research professor at the CSIC to the Institute of Corpuscular Physics. The event was held at the Eduard Boscà Library of the Burjassot Campus.
Last Tuesday, 7 November 2017, was held the sesquicentenary of the birth of Marie Skłodowska-Curie, a scientist whose fame goes beyond the strictly scientific scope. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win two Nobel Prizes in different fields, the first woman to teach at the Sorbonne and the first woman to be at the Pantheon in Paris by her own merits.
In order to pay homage to this figure of science, the Faculty of Physics and the Institute for Corpuscular Physics (Universitat de València-CSIC) have organized the conference entitled Marie Curie, a great figure of science that has gone down in history, there were others? In charge of the researcher Berta Rubio, the paper made a tour of the scientific career and discoveries of this great woman, but also of others who made essential contributions to science and who have had to be rescued from forgetfulness, as it is the case of Lisa Meitner, Curie's contemporary, who played a key role in the discovery and explanation of nuclear fission.
Berta Rubio Barroso is research professor of CSIC in the IFIC, in the group of experimental Nuclear Physics “Gamma and Neutrone spectroscopy” She has led many experiments based on the study of exotic nuclei in the most renowned Nuclear Physics laboratories such as Isolde (CERN), GSI (Germany), GANIL (France) and lately in RIKEN (Japan), where it has been discovered the last radioactive isotopes. She has published more than 200 scientific works and she has tutored 10 dissertations. Currently, she is a scientific advisor in the laboratories of MSU (USA), IPN Orsay (France) and the Underground Laboratory of Canfranc (Spain), as well as spokesperson for the international collaboration Eurisol.