Basically everyone calls her "Madame", but how many people really know her?
She is the only woman scientist in history to have won a nobel prize twice, Marie Curie, and her real name is Marie Skorodowska. In the First World War, hundreds of thousands of people were treated with radiation therapy vehicles. However, in later life, he was spurned by the French people.
Mary was born on 7 November 1867 to a family of secondary school teachers in Warsaw, Poland.
Her eldest sister died of illness when she was six years old, and her mother died of tuberculosis when she was nine.
Mary graduated from high school at the age of 15 with first place. After graduation, I worked as a tutor everywhere. The cost of preparing to study in Paris.
In 1891, at the age of 24, Mary went to Paris to study and entered the Department of Physics at the Faculty of Science of the University of Paris.
Because of Mary's own living expenses, Mary was studying the problem of steel magnetism, hoping to produce results to obtain a bursary.
But because the laboratory environment where Mary was at that time was very poor. In 1894, Marie wanted to get a better experimental environment, so she met Pierre Curie, the director of the laboratory of the Paris School of Physics and Chemistry at that time.
A year later, the two married in Paris, and Mary changed her husband's last name. Became Marie Curie. At that time, everyone called her Marie Curie.
After the two were together, Mary worked in the same laboratory as her husband.
When Mary was going to write a thesis, she found the radioactive material in the bitumen uranium mine particularly interesting. So I began to study the elements in it.
In 1898, the Curies announced the discovery of radium. This news shocked the scientific community at the time, but because of the radium at that time, it was not yet a physical object. It has also been questioned by many people.
So in order to refine pure radium, the Curies sold everything of their own value, even the house they lived in. Bought more than a dozen tons of bitumen uranium slag.
Began to refine pure radium, after 45 months, tens of thousands of times of refining, finally got ten grams of radium chloride.
In 1903, the Curies won that year's Nobel Prize in Physics. At the time, Marie Curie was the only woman in history to win the Nobel Prize.
The moment when you feel her honor is actually the beginning of the sadness of her fate.
The 1903 Nobel Prize was not awarded to the Curies alone. Share this physics prize with her. It was a scientist named Anthony Henry Becquerle.
He was the first to discover natural radioactive elements.
But he did not make significant research and theoretical results, and the main work was done by the Curies. But the Curies also studied radium on the premise that he discovered natural radioactivity.
Becquerel did not have any problems winning the Nobel Prize, but when scientists nominated the winners at that time, there was no Madame Curie's name at the beginning, and becquerel was in the first place.
The Curies, who made the greatest contribution, were called Becquerel's assistants. Marie Curie, on the other hand, was known as Pierre's assistant.
But in fact, the idea and concept of radioactivity Marie Curie is the real pioneer. Her husband Pierre was her assistant.
Before Marie and Pierre had married, Marie Curie had published a paper on "The Radioactivity of Uranium and The Compounds of Uranium," and radium was studied together after the two of them were married.
At Pierre's insistence, Marie Curie finally appeared on the list of winners. Although the process was tortuous, it was finally recognized.
And then it was time for Mary's fate to turn.
On April 19, 1906, three years after winning the Nobel Prize, Pierre died in a car accident.
Only 39-year-old Marie Curie remains alone to continue her research. At this time, Paul Lang Zhiwan broke into Mary's life.
Lang Zhiwan was a student of Pierre, and at the time of Pierre's death, it was Lang Zhiwan who brought Marie Curie out of sorrow step by step. The two people started out as a friendship relationship, but with the passage of time, it slowly became love.
But Lang Zhiwan was a husband with a wife, and his wife had not been exposed to much education. And the temper is very grumpy. He once beat Lang Zhiwan.
At first, Marie Curie also mediated the relationship between the two, but gradually, Marie Curie found that the contradictions between the two people were irreconcilable, and Marie Curie felt that she had fallen in love with Lang Zhiwan. So after that, he began to exhort the two of them to divorce.
But unfortunately, Lang Zhiwan's divorce failed. To make matters worse, his wife got his love letters from Marie Curie, which he sent to the media.
When the news got out of the media, there was a sensation throughout France.
Marie Curie once fought back angrily, warning the media not to invade her privacy.
But these words are simply powerless in the eyes of the people. Marie Curie was soon spurned by the crowd, and many French people began to attack her house, smashing the windows with stones and shouting at her for stealing.
After that, Marie Curie had a new title: Polish slut.
Marie Curie's behavior was spurned by the French people and she was with Lang Zhiwan, but was not affected in any way.
By 1914, the French people's scandal against Marie Curie had clearly subsided. Because in this year, the First World War broke out.
Those who called Madame Curie a Polish slut, smashed the windows with stones, and told her to leave the people of France. Marie Curie's approach to them was subversive.
In the beginning, Marie Curie took out all her Nobel Prizes and bought the bonds of the French war.
After that, she stopped the radium lab and began studying X-rays. Because Marie Curie felt that X-rays would come in handy on the battlefield.
After that, she developed X-ray treatment vehicles, which were heavily used in war. When there were not enough treatment cars, Marie Curie persuaded her wealthy friends to donate the vehicles.
In fact, Marie Curie could have easily become a billionaire, but she gave up the patent application related to radium because Marie Curie felt that it was a scientific public wealth.
In this way, Marie Curie took the X-ray treatment vehicle she developed and shuttled through the bullet rainforest.
Some estimate that more than a million people were treated with Marie Curie's X-rays at that time.
It was not until 1918 that the First World War finally declared an armistice.
After the end of the war, Marie Curie's name once again spread throughout the country.
It wasn't until 1934 that marie Curie, 67, came to the end of her life. That's because she was exposed to radiation for a long time, she got malignant leukemia and finally left.
When others were sorting out her belongings, they had to wear special protective clothing before they dared to touch the experimental equipment and notes she had left behind, because these things were full of radioactivity.
Marie Curie's life is legendary, and her whole life has been conducting scientific research.
Without her, there might not have been a radium, and without radium there would be no radium ray technology today.
Marie Curie wanted to study in Paris since she was a child, because at that time, her hometown of the University of Warsaw did not accept female students.
After going through a lot of hardships, I got the opportunity to study abroad.
And for marriage, she is also very sad. Her husband died, and he was with Lang Zhiwan, but he was spurned by the French people.
In the end, hundreds of thousands of people were injured by one person, but in the end they died at the hands of scientific research. But her life is also worthy of admiration.