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any source on this? It's difficult to find any primary source on her opinion

All her written texts i can find after she moved to France she referred to herself as "Marie"

In her biography of Pierre Curie, she herself wrote of herself before she married "Mon nom est Marie Sklodowska"

here's a letter she wrote to the president and signed simply "Marie Curie" https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/letter-from-mar...

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You're focusing only on "Marie", whereas the greater emphasis should arguably be on "Skłodowska".

AFAIK, in 19th century France, a woman's legal name did not change after she married. She adopted her husband's name as a matter of usage, however. FWIW, I, too, have heard that Marie Skłodowska-Curie wished to make prominent her maiden name, perhaps in the double barrelled form (which is the way I've seen it many times in other languages).

You are claiming she wished to be called Skłodowska-Curie but all her own correspondance is signed Marie Curie and as the author points out I have never seen anyone actually source this alleged wish.

Are you sure you are not a victim of Polish nationalism here?

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