Wikipedia:Valued picture candidates/Marie Curie

 
Original - Portrait of Marie Curie (November 7, 1867 – July 4, 1934), sometime prior to 1907. Curie and her husband Pierre shared a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903. Working together, she and her husband isolated Polonium. Pierre died in 1907, but Marie continued her work, namely with Radium, and received a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911. Her death is mainly attributed to excess exposure to radiation.
Reason
Tremendous EV, completely irreplaceable. Best image we have of her, IMO.
Articles this image appears in
Marie Curie, List of Nobel laureates in Chemistry & the Physics equivalent, List of Poles, Warsaw
Creator
Unknown

Promoted Image:Mariecurie.jpg --jjron (talk) 12:48, 27 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]