Before a distinguished audience that included Nobel Laureates, the President of the French Academy of Sciences, the president of the Institut Curie, and distinguished members of the College de France as well as a large number of interested persons, Ismail Serageldin delivered a special memorial lecture to celebrate the centennial of Marie Curie's first Nobel Prize in 1903. He used the occasion to highlight the responsibilities of scientists in a new era, and encouraged the audience to create chapters of the Mouvement Universel pour la responsibilite scientifique (MURS), a global movement dedicated to the greater involvement of scientists with society at large. It is worthy of note that Ismail Serageldin is also the President of the international MURS.