Learn about the life of Madame Marie Curie and her discovery of radioactivity by attending the one-woman dramatic presentation of “Madame Curie” by Carole Berg on Saturday, Oct. 15 at 7:00 p.m. in Bellevue College’s Carlson Theater.
The event kicks off National Chemistry Week and celebrates the 100th anniversary of Marie Curie being awarded her second Nobel Prize for the discovery of radium and polonium. The event, sponsored by the College’s Science and Math Institute (SAMI) is free and open to the public. No tickets are required.
Berg is an organic chemistry instructor who has taught chemistry and microbiology at BC for 41 years and has been performing her one-woman show as famed scientist Madame Curie to the delight of students and coworkers for over 17 years.
Marie Curie, née Maria Sklodowska, was born in Warsaw on Nov. 7, 1867. She left Warsaw for Paris in 1891 to continue her studies in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics at the Sorbonne, and in 1903 received the Nobel Prize in Physics with Piere Curie and Henri Becquerel.