03/05/2025
Unveiled on April 26, 1987, Bayonne, NJ > Marie Skłodowska Curie Monument bronze bust stands on a granite plinth Sculptur Andrzej Pityński.
Marie Skłodowska Curie (1867-1934), eminent Polish scientist and professor at the Sorbonne. She studied physics and chemistry in Paris, where she met her husband, Pierre Curie. Together they conducted experiments which led, in 1898 to the discovery of two radioactive elements: polonium (named in honor of Poland) and radium. In 1903 they were awarded the Nobel prize for physics for this discovery. In 1911 Marie received another Nobel prize, this time for chemistry. Marie was also active in charitable causes and in the furtherance and dissemination of scientific achievements in the field of radioactivity. She was made a member of the Legion of Honor and was the first woman to be buried in the Paris Pantheon.
The bronze bust stands on a granite plinth. Measuring 8.2' x 3.3' x3.3', ti was executed in 1987. To recall the greatest work of Marie Skłodowska Curie, tow Nobel medals are visible on her breast. The work was unveiled on April 26, 1987 on the occasion of the one hundred and twentieth anniversary of her birth. The sculpture stands outside the main entrance to the Public Library in Bayonne, New Jersey.
Pitynski is the sculptor of statues --"Marie Sklodowska-Curie" in Bayonne, "Sarmata" [Polish Noble] at the Morris Museum, "Fr. Jerzy Popieluszko" in Trenton, "Pope John Paul II" in Manhattan, "Msciciel" [Avenger] a huge sculpture of bronze that was unveiled at the American Czestochowa [in Doylestown, PA] on August 14, 1988, there are also several of his bas reliefs including the urn holding the heart of Paderewski, and another dedicated to the Home Army. In addition, two of his crowned eagles decorate the Polish Consulate General in New York, and the Embassy in Washington, DC.
Pitynski's most impressive sculpture is "Katyn 1940", unveiled on May 19, 1991, in Exchange Place in Jersey City, NJ. The statue is made of cast bronze weighing 6 tons on a granite base weighing 120 tons, it stands 12 meters high.
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