Last-minute reprieve keeps Nobel scientist’s legacy standing. Now campaigners want the building to be listed

France’s culture ministry has stepped in at the last minute to suspend the demolition of a symbol of France’s scientific medical heritage, but campaigners say the fight goes on.

Bulldozers were due to move in to No 26 rue d’Ulm in Paris’s Latin Quarter on Monday to knock down the Pavillon des Sources, one of three buildings that made up Marie Curie’s Paris laboratory.

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