History
Institut Curie was born out of the determination of one woman, Marie Curie, and one important cause: the fight against cancer.In 12 December 1909: The University of Paris and Institut Pasteur decided to build the Institut du Radium for Marie Curie, winner of the 1903 Nobel Prize for physics along with her husband Pierre Curie and their colleague Henri Becquerel, for their work on radioactivity.