Marie Curie's Careeer and Academies of Science

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23510347
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Gender
• Research Institution: Nagoya Institute of Technology
• Principal Investigator: KAWASHIMA Keiko 名古屋工業大学, 工学(系)研究科(研究院), 教授 (20262941)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 科学史 / ジェンダー / マリー・キュリー＾ / 科学アカデミー / 放射能 / 女性科学者

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study analyzed the relation between Marie Curie's career as scientist and Paris Academy of Science in the gender perspective. Marie Curie is the first female Nobel prize winner and the first two time Nobel prize winner in the world. Her fame in the history of science is firm. In France, however, she lost election in the Paris Academy of Science, of which almost all famous French scientists were members. In considering that the two co-Nobel prize winners, her husband Pierre and Henri Becquerel were its members, gender-bias in the early 20th century France must have had a big influence on this failure. There were other reasons however. Ethnic conflict and the principle of separation of government and religion are also the important elements. As actual conflicts, these three questions connected with each other and influenced in the case.

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科学史