#pierre curie

[crowns-of-violets-and-roses]

Marie Meloney describes her struggle to convince Marie Skłodowska-Curie to write her own autobiography in the introduction to Marie Curie's biography of her husband Pierre Currie.

Marie Curie needed significant persuasion to write about her own life and referred to the Curies' maxim that "in science we should be interested in things, not persons" to argue against it. She eventually agreed to write autobiographical notes that were included at the end of the book. She opens by reiterating that she had to be convinced to write them and describes the idea as alien to her.

Her attitude towards writing about her husband is entirely different. She described hesitation in writing his biography but only because she didn't know him in his youth and she wished there was someone who knew him intimately throughout his life to recount it.

There was never a question for her that his biography should be written. She hoped that it would conserve his memory and "remind those who knew him of the reasons for which they loved him".

Her general aversion to biographical writing falling away when it's about her husband instead of herself is such a profound expression of love that it almost made me cry.

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Marie Curie and Pierre Curie

[twentyeightsuns]

something that always helps me whenever i am feeling unmotivated or resentful towards my studies (mostly because of the toxicity surrounding the competitive nature of the exams i am preparing for) is pausing for a sec and wondering how exactly the particular concept came to be in front of me. how many nights did the Curies spend awake discussing the whys and hows of radioactivity? how exactly did Henry and Raoult think of solvents exerting pressure differently in different cases? did Franklin have to worry about fighting patriarchy besides working on her discovery? did Stefan/Boltzmann ever know we'd be able to calculate the temperature of the Sun? did they know their passion and their love for their respective subjects would be influencing millions of lives down the road? did they? and so i take another breath, mutter a thank you w my head up and continue.

[postcard-from-the-past]

Pierre Curie among his students at the Sorbonne University

French vintage postcard

[wandering-cemeteries]

Tombs of Marie and Pierre Curie.

Pantheon, Paris

Nov. 2016

[recherchestetique]

Physicists and Nobel Prize winners Marie Curie and Pierre Curie shortly after their wedding. France (1895)

[plaques-memoire]

Plaque en hommage à : Pierre et Marie Curie

Type : Lieu de résidence

Adresse : 24 rue de la Glacière, 75013 Paris, France

Date de pose : Inconnue

Texte : En 1898, Pierre et Marie Curie habitaient cet immeuble lorsqu'ils découvrirent le radium à l’École supérieure de physique et de chimie de Paris

Quelques précisions : Pierre (1859-1906) et Marie Curie (1867-1934) sont deux physiciens/chimistes français, connus comme l'un des couples les plus emblématiques de la vie scientifique française. Tous deux ont obtenu en 1903 le prix Nobel de physique (qu'ils partagent avec Henri Becquerel) pour leur travaux sur la radioactivité. Ils se rencontrent dans les années 1890, alors qu'ils travaillent tous deux à l'École municipale de physique et de chimie industrielles (aujourd'hui ESPCI Paris), et ils se marient en 1895. Quoiqu'ils aient chacun mené des recherches individuelles de leur côté, ils sont aujourd'hui principalement commémorés dans l'imaginaire populaire pour leurs travaux communs sur les éléments radioactifs (incluant la découverte du polonium et du radium). Encore aujourd'hui, l'image de ces deux chercheurs partageant leur vie au laboratoire comme en-dehors, une période qualifiée d'exaltante par les deux intéressés, continue à susciter l'admiration du public. Leur histoire commune prendra toutefois tragiquement fin lorsque Pierre décède des suites d'un accident de la circulation. L'une de leurs filles, Irène Joliot-Curie, recevra comme ses parents un prix Nobel (en chimie). L'université de Paris VI (aujourd'hui la faculté des sciences de Sorbonne Université) porte longtemps leur nom. Marie Curie est également honorée par deux autres plaques commémoratives à Paris, quai de Béthune (4ème arrondissement) et avenue Jean Jaurès (19ème arrondissement), où elle vécut également.

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Marie Salomea Skłodowska–Curie (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.

She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and the only woman to win a Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields.

Her husband, Pierre Curie, was a co-winner of her first Nobel Prize, making them the first-ever married couple to win the Nobel Prize and launching the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes.

She was the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris in 1906.

Indefatigable despite a career of physically demanding and ultimately fatal work, she discovered polonium and radium, championed the use of radiation in medicine and fundamentally changed our understanding of radioactivity.

[dailydefunctmangamagazine]

Weekly Manga Sekai no Ijin (週刊マンガ世界の偉人) / Asahi Shimbun Publications (朝日新聞出版) / 21st Oct 2012 issue (Featured historical figure: Marie & Pierre Curie)

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[plagg-wants-cheese]

I love how often we talk about how Mary Shelley kept her husband's heart in a jar, but I really want to add that Marie Curie (THAT Marie Curie) kept the clothes Pierre wore when he was run over hidden for almost two months until she finally got the courage to burn them. Curie took the scissors and began to cut up the dark coat. She threw the pieces one by one into the fire and watched them shrivel up, smoke, be consumed and disappear. But suddenly she stopped, struggling against the tears that darkened her tired eyes. In the folds of the cloth appeared some viscous fragments of him. As she was throwing them in the fire she could not contain herself and started kissing the last scraps of the brain in which, a few weeks before, noble thoughts and the discoveries of genius had been born. Marie contemplated them, she touched them and kissed them. Feeling the last remains of her husband, kissing and caressing the blood and scraps of his brain so, so desperately that her sister Bronya had to drag her away and finish the job herself.

Oh what is the limit of a woman in love

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Surprisingly few elements have been named after people; at present, only 15 people have been immortalised on the periodic table, and they are listed in table 1.4.

"Chemistry" 2e - Blackman, A., Bottle, S., Schmid, S., Mocerino, M., Wille, U.

[postcard-from-the-past]

Pierre Curie having a lecture on Radium at the La Sorbonne University in Paris

French vintage postcard

[dontcallittimetravel]

Happy birthday to Marie Curie, badass scientist who had what it took to get the job done, including ruthlessly murdering her husband in a public street in order to advance her career

[nuclear-breakdown]

Marie Curie- The Woman who Changed the World

Marie Curie was born on November 7, 1897. A Nobel laureate, she is well known for being the first woman to receive such award. Her and her husband Pierre Curie were the scientists to discover both radium and polonium.

               Noticing that uranium located in a substance called pitchblende was much more radioactive than normal uranium, the Curie’s began to experiment on the substance. Through hard work and many hours of experimentation, large quantities of the substance eventually lead to the discovery of polonium. Eventually, they were also able to isolate radium. Her contributions to science cannot be understated.

               Her research has led to the creation of various X-ray machines. During World War I, she worked on the front lines, functioning the machines to help injured soldiers. An additional type of X-ray can see moving parts in the body, like the heart pumping.

               She sacrificed her whole life to the study of these elements. Unknowing at the time of the dangers of radioactive materials, she died of leukemia, probably as a result of prolonged radiation exposure. Her research, however, has saved countless lives.  

[eine-wie-wir]

"Mein Pierre, die Stunden des Wartens waren schrecklich, man hat mir deine Habseligkeiten gebracht, deinen Füllfederhalter, dein Visitenkarten Etui, deine Schlüssel, deine Uhr. Diese Uhr die nicht still stand, als dein armer Kopf den furchtbaren Schlag erhielt, der ihn zerschmetterte. Das ist alles, was mir von dem zärtlichen und geliebten Freund bleibt, mit dem ich mein Leben zu verbringen hoffte." - Marie Curie (1867-1934)