Explaining the MaRIE Name
Los Alamos National Laboratory's flagship facility concept, MaRIE, stands for Matter-Radiation Interactions in Extremes. It is also named after Marie Curie, the only person to win two Nobel Prizes in different technical disciplines. Marie Curie was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity. She was awarded her first Nobel Prize in Physics together with her husband for their study into the spontaneous radiation discovered by Becquerel, who was awarded the other half of the prize; and her second Nobel Prize was in Chemistry, in recognition for her work in radioactivity.
Given her brilliant work on radioactivity and her immense creativity, we choose to honor her in the name of our proposed facility.