# @who on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CHSJqfGjHb6
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/76823411-who-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/902912dce7.jpg
- **Posted:** 2020-11-07T08:56:00.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) — https://gondola.cc/WHO

## Caption

It's the International Day of #MedicalPhysics.
Today we commemorate the anniversary of the birth of Marie Curie in 1867. She pioneered 💡 research on #radioactivity ☢️ and discovered it destroys #cancer cells faster than healthy cells, paving the way for #radiotherapy. She won a Nobel Prize for #Physics in 1903 and a second Nobel Prize, this time in Chemistry, in 1911.

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## Tags

cancer, medicalphysics, radiotherapy, radioactivity, physics

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