Parkside Hospital is now the proud owner of a bust dedicated to Nobel prize-winning scientist Marie Curie.
The Polish Ambassador to the UK, Madame Barbara Tuge-Erecinska, unveiled the statue at the ceremony at the hospital’s Cancer Centre, opposite Wimbledon Common, on Monday.
The bronze work of art, by Polish artist Tomasz Maciej Danilewicz, has been donated to the Cancer Centre by the Polish Heritage Society.
Professor Trevor Powles, the cancer centre's medical director, said: "We are greatly honoured that the Polish Heritage Society has chosen our Cancer Centre for this sculpture."
The scientist, after whom the cancer charity is named, last year celebrated her centenary for her second Noble prize in 1911.
Curie remains the only person to win Nobel prizes in two sciences, physics and chemistry.
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