1947 - Poland "Marie Curie" Postage Stamp

This is a commemorative postage stamp issued by Poland to commemorate Marie Curie - issued in 1947 / postal used canceled / no hinge, no gum
Scott# 410 / Denomination: 10 zloty / Marie Sklodowska Curie / Blue
** Marie Sklodowska-Curie (1867-1934) was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person (and only woman) to win twice, the only person to win twice in multiple sciences, and was part of the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. She was also the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris, and in 1995 became the first woman to be entombed on her own merits in the Panthéon in Paris. - Marie Sklodowska Curie never lost her sense of Polish identity. She named the first chemical element that she discovered - polonium, which she first isolated in 1898, after her native country. - Curie died in 1934 at the sanatorium of Sancellemoz (Haute-Savoie), France, due to aplastic anemia brought on by exposure to radiation - including carrying test tubes of radium in her pockets during research and her World War I service in mobile X-ray units created by her.