女性研究者に「キュリー賞」　科技機構とポーランド大使館

　科学技術振興機構とポーランド大使館は、同国出身のキュリー博士の名を冠した「羽ばたく女性研究者賞（マリア・スクウォドフスカ・キュリー賞）」を創設した。第１回は１０月１日から１２月１３日まで自薦か他薦で募集し、最優秀賞（賞金５０万円）１人、奨励賞（同２５万円）２人を選定。来年５月に発表し、表彰式を行う。
　応募資格は日本国籍の女性で、来年４月１日時点で大学院生（博士後期課程）か博士号取得後約５年以内に相当する研究者。選考委員長は米エール大の岩崎明子教授（免疫学）が務める。
　キュリー博士は３０代前半でポロニウムとラジウムを発見し、ノーベル物理学賞と化学賞を受賞した。科技機構の浜口道成理事長（元名古屋大学長）は「研究者にとって３０代前半は一番大事な時期だが、女性の場合は（出産、育児などで）研究を継続できるか厳しく、苦労されている。この賞で励ましていきたい」と話している。（2021/09/23-14:34）

The state-backed Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and the Polish Embassy in Tokyo have established an award named after Polish-born Nobel laureate Marie Curie to commend young Japanese female researchers aiming to be active on the global arena.
   Applications, either by nomination or self-submission, for the first Marie Sklodowska Curie Award will be accepted between Oct. 1 and Dec. 13. One applicant will be chosen for the Grand Prize and two for the Inspiration Prize. The prize money will be 500,000 yen for the Grand Prize winner and 250,000 yen for each Inspiration Prize winner.
   The announcement of the winners and the award ceremony are scheduled for May next year.
   Eligible to apply are career female researchers who hold Japanese citizenship, and as of April 1, 2022, will have obtained a doctoral degree within the past five years or will be doctoral students. Periods away from research because of life events, such as maternity leave, are excluded from the total period concerned. The winners will be selected by a committee of external experts headed by Akiko Iwasaki, professor of immunobiology at Yale University.
   Marie Sklodowska Curie discovered polonium at age 31 and radium at 32. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only person awarded a Nobel Prize in two different scientific fields, physics and chemistry, which she won in 1903 and 1911, respectively.