I respect the name choice as I completely understand your thinking and intentions, but having a person's name as the name of a coin is a bit unappealing (at least for me) and could be open for various interpretations as everyone has different points of view. In fact there's already a post about 'radiation' and even I when I read the name thought that this might be some radiating coin that has some features that reflect this. But as you said, you named it like that for her achievements and hard work...

I'd rather go for an adjective or something symbolic as a name for the coin that portrays Marie Curi's achievements and your line of thought - might be more catchy and acceptable. Although as you both said, MCC is quite good.

Now, apart from the name, I think these are a couple of points that you should consider:

• do not offer instant bounties for pools - I don't know how many coins failed because pool owners took the bounty to create the first few pools and then jumped on the next coin, taking down the previous pool just to take again the bounties. If you offer bounties make them 'per month running' and not all at one go at the creation time;
• I'm not favorable to the idea of always increasing difficulty. Many on here are armed to the teeth with pro mining rigs and can kick the difficult high quite fast. This would deter small-hash miners to keep supporting the network in the long run and would definitely be unattractive to newbies joining the crypto-world to support it too, as most also would have small-hash power.
  

For now this is what I think should be considered, along with the good points many have already mentioned in this thread.

Thanks though for trying to innovate and listening to the community.