Bronisława Dłuska

Władysław Skłodowski with daughters (from left) Maria, Bronisława, Helena, 1890

Bronisława Dłuska (1865 – 15 April 1939) was a Polish physician, wife of political activist Kazimierz Dłuski, older sister of physicist Marie Curie, and was the first director of Warsaw's Maria Skłodowska-Curie Institute of Oncology.

She was one of five children. The others were Maria, Zofia, Józef and Helena.^[1]

Her paternal grandfather Józef Skłodowski had been a respected teacher in Lublin. After Russian authorities eliminated laboratory instruction from Polish schools, he brought much of the laboratory equipment home and instructed his children in its use, thus instilling them with scientific interests.^[2]

Their mother, also named Bronisława, died of tuberculosis.^[3]

Bronisława, like her younger sister Maria later, received her higher education in Paris. Maria had made an agreement with Bronisława, that she would give Bronisława financial assistance during her medical studies, in exchange for similar assistance two years later.^[4]

In 1890 Bronisława married Kazimierz Dłuski.

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• "Marie Curie – Polish Girlhood (1867–1891) Part 1". American Institute of Physics. Retrieved 7 November 2011.