The United Nations has declared 2011 to be the International Year of Chemistry, marking the centennial of Maria Sklodowska-Curie’s second Nobel Prize. To honour the occasion, the Leddy Library will display an exhibition about the life and achievements of the Warsaw-born chemist.

Together with her husband, Curie was awarded half of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903, for their study into the spontaneous radiation discovered by Henri Becquerel, who was awarded the other half of the prize. In 1911 she received a second Nobel Prize, this time in chemistry, in recognition of her work in radioactivity.

The Leddy Library’s exhibition will remain on display until November 18. The campus community is invited to a ceremony celebrating its opening at noon Friday, November 4, in the library’s lobby.