The French minister of culture intervened to halt the scheduled demolition of the Paris laboratory that pioneer scientist Marie Curie utilized. The site’s manager, the Institut Curie, planned to demolish the centerpiece Parisian Pavillon des Sources as part of a development project. However, after speaking with Thierry Philip, the head of the institute, Rima Abdul Malak, the minister of culture, said in a post on X on Friday that the destruction had been postponed. The laboratory was one of three buildings built when the Radium Institute, now known as the Institut Curie, was founded in 1909 and was located at 26 rue d’Ulm. It was scheduled for demolition to create room for a big new structure, but activists