The struggles and accomplishments of Madame Marie Curie, widely considered the world’s most famous female scientist, will come to life in the one-woman performance of “Manya: A Living History of Marie Curie” by Susan Marie Frontczak on Tuesday, Feb. 9, at 7:30 p.m. at Rosch Recital Hall.
Dr. Curie changed the world a century ago through her discovery of radium and radioactivity and opened the doors of science to women around the world. In collaboration with her husband, Pierre, and the medical community, Curie established the first successful radiation treatments for cancer. She was the first European woman to earn a doctorate in the sciences and the first woman to be awarded a Novel Prize.
Ms. Frontczak’s dramatization recounts Curie’s life, challenges and victories, spanning her childhood in Poland to her studies in Paris to the research she conducted with her husband. She has revealed the human behind the scientist, while placing Currie’s life and accomplishments in a memorable, historic context, for 30 years.
The performance is free and open to the public, but tickets are required and available at the Fredonia Ticket Office in the Williams Center. The event has been arranged by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and sponsored by the Phyllis W. and Lawrence A. Patrie Endowment for the Sciences and the Carnahan Jackson Humanities Fund of the Fredonia College Foundation.
