Demolition of 'Marie Curie' site on hold in Paris

The entrance of the Radium Institute, the historic site of physicist and chemist Marie Curie's laboratory. French Culture Minister Rima Abdul-Malak announced the cancellation of the planned demolition of the historic site of Curie's laboratory in Paris, where a biological chemistry centre for cancer was to be built. Photo: AFP

France's culture minister said recently that the demolition of a site linked to pioneering radioactivity researcher Marie Curie would be put on hold.

The Curie Institute will "suspend demolition of the Pavillon des Sources to take the time to look at ... any possible alternative," Culture Minister Rima Abdul Malak wrote on X, formerly Twitter.