As a scientist, Marie Curie has countless titles and titles, but the era she lives in is still a typical patriarchal era, and she also carries heavy pressure on her all the way. In particular, an extramarital affair caused her to suffer humiliation and was called a "Polish slut" by French public opinion at the time. When Lang Zhiwan's wife found out that Lang Zhiwan was frequently out and his whereabouts were uncertain, she became suspicious and instructed her brother to infiltrate Lang Zhiwan's laboratory to search, and as a result, she stole all the love letters that Marie Curie gave to Lang Zhiwan and sent them to the major newspapers in Paris for publication.
In these love letters, in addition to expressing love, Marie Curie also expressed a strong sexual need and talked about many sexual feelings with Lang Zhiwan. When the letters were made public, she was called a "Polish slut" by the French. Specific to Marie Curie, the dark side of those apologists is unbearable patriarchy and nationalism.
In the years after their marriage, the Curies began a prolific scientific career. In 1898, the husband and wife jointly signed a thesis naming the new elements they discovered after "polonium" in honor of their divided motherland, Poland. In the same year, they discovered another new element, "radium", and in order to prove that "radium" did exist, they almost used up all their possessions, bought more than a dozen tons of bitumen uranium ore, began a difficult purification experiment, and after countless days and nights of tens of thousands of times of refining, finally extracted 0.1 grams of radium chloride in 1902, shocking the entire scientific community.
The ignorant French people denounced the great scientist, and her good friends as scientists began to turn away from her, except that Einstein, whose private life was in disarray, wrote a letter in solidarity with Marie Curie, which read: "If two people love each other, no one has the right to interfere." ”
Albert Einstein once said: "Of all the world celebrities, Marie Curie is the only one who has not been spoiled by fame." ”
Unlike Edison, who amassed wealth from various patents, the Curies decided to give up their patent right to refine radium after refining radium, thus losing a large amount of patent fees. If she applied for a patent to refine radium, she would be instantly rich. What is even more respectable is that after the death of her husband, Marie Curie donated a radium worth one million francs to the laboratory of the University of Paris after the death of her husband, and she still lived a poor life.
Marie Curie died of leukemia in 1934 at the age of 67. The origins of radioactivity began with Marie Curie, whose death was directly related to perennial exposure to radioactivity. For 40 years after her death, the contaminated notebook she used and the rays were constantly released outward. When she died, she hoped to be buried in the town of Sou on the outskirts of Paris, forever with Pierre Curie.
As a scientist, Marie Curie has achieved great success and has great glory. Marie Curie, as a woman, had a life of misfortune and regret.