Marie Curie

* Re “Can Women Be Saints in France?” editorial, April 2:

Here is the opportunity for the French Academy of Sciences to correct its error. It is about time that this courageous and brilliant woman was included in the Pantheon. Marie Sklodowska-Curie is truly among the giants of science.

The first person to be awarded two Nobel Prizes in science (physics and chemistry), she revolutionized the way we view the universe in a profound way and brought us into the Nuclear Age. Give her the honor she merits.

ROBERT J. LISOWSKI

Los Angeles

* I was disturbed by the black humor--which I hope was unintentional--of the following sexist statement your editorial:

“Now the question is whether the remains of Marie Curie’s collaborator and husband, Pierre Curie, will join hers in the Pantheon. How delicious the irony if it takes a woman to bring a lesser male scientist like Pierre Curie into the Pantheon. He won only one Nobel Prize.”

Pierre Curie shared his wife’s first Nobel Prize but was not able to share her second because of his death in a tragic accident several years before.

LAWRENCE FAFARMAN

Los Angeles