Sklodowska Marie Curie

Curie, Marie Sklodowska (1867-1934). French physicist, of Polish origin, Pierre’s wife, discoverer of radium with her husband and founder of the doctrine of the radioactivity was in 1918 in Lacco Ameno with a committee of scientists for a visit to the island of Ischia radioactive sources, and accompanied by prof. Camillo Porlezza, director of the Institute of Chemistry of the University of Pisa. A plaque on the facade of the Baths Regina Isabella remembers the event.