Marie Curie’s lab saved from the wrecking ball
Marie Curie worked at the Pavillon des Sources until her death in 1934. It was one of two labs she used — the other, the Pavillion Curie, left, is now the Curie Museum
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Had it not been for the campaigning of one man, the demolition of a site of global scientific importance — the Pavillon des Sources, a Marie Curie laboratory — would have started today.
The double Nobel prizewinner’s lab in the Latin Quarter of Paris was due to be demolished but a late intervention by Rima Abdul Malak, the culture minister, has led to a suspension of work, and talks have begun with the property’s owners, the Curie Institute, to examine alternatives to demolition under a redevelopment project.
The laboratory is close to the Panthéon, the mausoleum in which the remains of Curie and her husband, Pierre, are interred.
The Times reported just after Christmas the plans for the imminent destruction of the 1912 yellow brick
