Acta Medica Medianae (Mar 2010)
MARIA SKLODOVSKA KIRI (1867-1934) - CONTRIBUTION TO WAR RADIOLOGY DEVELOPMENT
Abstract
Maria Sklodovska Kiri was born on November 7, 1867 in Warsaw (Poland). She suffered from leukemia and died on June 4, 1934. She was buried with full honors at Panteon. Maria Sklodovska Kiri introduced the term radioactivity into science. During World War I, Maria Sklodovska Kiri was working on creating the mobile x-ray room, the so-called "radiologic car". Maria Sklodovska Kiri installed the x-ray machine into a car, and showed in practice how to use its dynamo for electric power production necessary for the work of the x-ray mashine. She made 20 cars with moving radiology lab and trained 150 people to work on them. She introduced something really new into military medicine - a mobile radiology diagnostics. With the discovery of radioactive elements, a new medical branch – radiotherapy, was developed.
