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Marie Curie Google Logo Celebrates Nobel Prize Winning Scientist

Born in Poland, Curie moved to Paris in her early 20s to study mathematics and physics at the Sorbonne. A new Google Doodle celebrates the birth of scientist Marie Curie on this day in 1867. She and husband Pierre are remembered for their...

by Miranda Miller • Published November 7, 2011
Marie Curie • Google Doodle • Nobel Prize • Henri Becquerel • Harpercollins • Paris • Google • The Sorbonne • Poland
Google Logo Honors Mobile Inventor Alexander Calder

His father was a famous sculptor – as was his grandfather, who sculpted the William Penn statute that sits above Philadelphia's City Hall – and his mother was a professional portrait painter trained in France at the Sorbonne.

by Frank Watson • Published July 22, 2011
Alexander Calder • Google Homepage • National Gallery Of Art • Philadelphia's City Hall • Washington Dc • Presidential Medal Of Freedom • Jfk Airport • 1968 Summer Olympics • William Penn • Unesco