Year of Marie Curie Skłodowska in Poland and France In January 2011, Poland’s Senate unanimously adopted a res-olu on which, on the 100th anniversary of awarding Maria Curie-Skłodowska the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, designates 2011 as the Year of Maria Curie-Skłodowska to acknowledge her great contribu on to the global development of science. Curie-Skłodowska (1867-1934)