Building used by Marie Curie to be moved ‘a few dozen metres’ to make way for cancer research centre

The Parisian building in which Marie Skłodowska-Curie and her colleagues prepared and stored radioactive material is to be moved stone by stone to a location nearby to make way for a new cancer research centre.

The decision has put an end to a month-long argument between the Curie Institute – which is responsible for managing the site – and defenders of Parisian heritage about the future of the Pavillon des Sources which was set to be decontaminated and then demolished as part of a development project.