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Outstanding Polish women light up Stockholm in Nobel Prize show

Outstanding Polish women light up Stockholm in Nobel Prize show

09:19, 10.12.2024
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Outstanding Polish women light up Stockholm in Nobel Prize show Groundbreaking Polish chemist Marie Curie is the star of a new light show celebrating the women who have won the Nobel Prize.

Groundbreaking Polish chemist Marie Curie is the star of a new light show celebrating the women who have won the Nobel Prize.

Images of Nobel laureates including Marie Curie have been beamed onto Stockholm's City Hall. Photo: ateliers-bk.com
Images of Nobel laureates including Marie Curie have been beamed onto Stockholm's City Hall. Photo: ateliers-bk.com

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Images of the scientist, who was the first female Nobel laureate, are being beamed onto the City Hall of the Swedish capital, Stockholm.

Poet Wisława Szymborska and novelist Olga Tokarczuk are also featured in a week of audiovisual spectacles to coincide with the presentation of awards to the 2024 winners.

Warsaw-born Curie, better known as Maria Skłodowska-Curie in Poland, is a double Nobel laureate, who won the prize for chemistry in 1903 and for physics in 1911.

Her pioneering research into radioactivity alongside her French husband, Pierre, included the discovery of the chemical elements radium and polonium, which was named after her homeland.

In the show entitled 'Leading Lights', Curie's story kicks off a "luminous tribute to the brilliance of female pioneers" that is beamed onto the major Stockholm landmark.

"Marie Skłodowska-Curie acts as a symbolic guide, leading the audience on a journey through the transformative discoveries made by female Nobel Prize laureates," explained the producers, Les Atelier BK, on the project's website.

"Projected onto the façade of the City Hall, this artistic spectacle illuminates the testimonies, analyses, and breakthroughs of these remarkable women, shining a spotlight on the contributions they have made to science and society.
"It’s a celebration not only of their achievements, but also of the enduring impact of their discoveries, which continue to shape the world."

Other events in the Nordic city shine a light on the talents of Szymborska and Tokarczuk, winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996 and 2018 respectively.

Both feature in an exhibition, hosted in a wooden pavilion erected in the city center, that explores the gender imbalance among the prize's laureates. Only 18 women have won literature's biggest honor since it was first handed out in 1901, and the show immortalizes them in modern portraits made to resemble early Christian stained-glass windows.

Szymborka's poetry is also given prominence in a spectacle called Love at First Sight that is being splashed onto the historical facade of the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts.

The overarching project, called Nobel Week Lights, features 15 shows in total and lasts until mid-Demember. The spectacles are peppered around central Stockholm and are free to enter.

This year's Nobel Prize winners will be handed their awards on 10 December.