Author: Shanjia
Marie Curie has won two Nobel Prizes in physics and chemistry. Career-wise, she is a woman; And emotionally, in the husband Pierre. After Curie died in a car accident, she was immersed in tragedy and could not extricate herself. It was her husband's student Lang Zhiwan who took her out of the haze and let her know that the green mountains outside the door were still there. And it is Lang Zhiwan, a husband with a wife, but let Marie Curie bear the name of "Polish slut"...
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On April 19, 1906, Marie Curie lost her beloved, her husband Pierre, forever. That day, Pierre went out and was hit by a freight carriage and fell, and when he was trying to get up, he knew that a subsequent carriage ran over his head...
Tragedy struck, and Marie Curie fell into great pain and could not extricate herself. In her life, Pierre is not only her husband, but also her soul mate, and the two have worked hand in hand to create many miracles.
Now that Pierre is gone, Marie Curie feels that her heart has been hollowed out, and she can no longer find the feeling of being pampered in the past.
Lang Zhiwan, as Pierre's student, befriended the Curies. He was well aware of Marie Curie's grief and often came to visit her and comfort her.
Lang Zhiwan was tall, with deep eye sockets, and a beard, and was nicknamed "Captain of the Cavalry". At this time, he is trapped in a confused marriage.
Lang Zhiwan, at the age of 22, married a ceramic worker, Qianjin Jenny. Before marriage, Jenny always looked like a little bird and admired the academic master; After marriage, she showed a grumpy and rude side. Maybe as a mother of four children, the family's expenses have soared, and she is single-mindedly hoping that her husband will make more money.
But Lang Zhiwan is a scientist with feelings, he is obsessed with research, and he is unwilling to submit to his wife and change careers. In this way, the family atmosphere is always at a low pressure, and quarrels have become commonplace.
Unable to afford to provoke, to hide, from then on, Madame Curie's home became Lang Zhiwan's trouble relief shop. After Pierre's death, he helped Marie Curie prepare her first class at the Sorbonne and helped her debug various equipment. In Marie Curie's eyes, Lang Zhiwan, who is five years younger than her, is a sympathetic, talented, and close friend who can talk deeply.
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Frequent professional contact, scientific dialogue at the highest level, and deeper thinking and cognition, Marie Curie and Lang Zhiwan are deeply aware of their opponents, and there is a love that is difficult to hide in the eyes of each other.
However, limited to Lang Zhiwan's married status, Marie Curie still refused the possibility of further development, and both of them had some scruples. But artificial control can not resist the arrival of love, and the two live together like husband and wife after all.
In July 1910, near the Sorbonne University where he worked, Lang Zhiwan rented a small apartment as a "love hut" for him and Marie Curie, and as soon as they had time, the two went on a date.
Marie Curie's desire to marry Lang Zhiwan became more and more anxious, after all, with a husband with a wife, she suffered great torment in her heart.
A thousand words, translated into a pen, Marie Curie wrote: The two of us are very close, as long as there is a small piece of fertile land, we can develop. We used to feel this sometimes, but it wasn't until I lamented the life I had shaped that we were facing each other and were alone that we fully realized this fact. That's when you find a feeling you can't find in your home.
In the face of Marie Curie's fiery words, Lang Zhiwan's heart resonated. Since the marriage with Jenny is already lingering, it is better to go to the sky and go to each side. When Lang Zhiwan proposed a divorce to Jenny, Jenny unsurprisingly expressed strong opposition. With four children, divorce means separation from flesh and bones, as long as the family is there, the children have a father and a mother, which is also a choice.
In the end, Lang Zhiwan has not yet made up his mind to divorce, and can only continue to fall in love with Marie Curie in the wandering of taking one step at a time.
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Husbands have affairs and wives are always the last to know. Here, Jenny, she felt more and more that Lang Zhiwan was talking less and less at home, never willing to have a direct conflict with herself, and always had a look like you wanted.
After all, the woman's intuition is the most sensitive, Jenny sent her own brother to infiltrate her husband's laboratory, pry open the drawer, and found all the letters written by Marie Curie to Lang Zhiwan.
The truth came out, Jenny showdown with her husband: as long as you insist on divorce, as long as you are still with the woman, the result is to make headlines, hot search, and from then on you and the woman are discredited.
Lang Zhiwan knew that Marie Curie at that time had been nominated by the Nobel Prize Committee and was likely to become the first person to win two Nobel Prizes. Once the letter is exposed, Marie Curie's scientific future will be ruined.
In desperation, Lang Zhiwan proposed to Madame Curie to break up. After weighing the pros and cons, the two accepted the reality and stopped interacting, in August 1911.
You guess one side of things, but you never guess the other side of things. On November 4, 1911, the front page of the Paris newspaper Primavera published "The Love Story of Lang Zhiwan and Marie Curie". Suddenly, the public was in an uproar, and the top scientists would actually throw themselves into the arms of a husband with a wife? This melon is big enough!
What most caused public dissatisfaction was the publication of a fragment of Marie Curie's letter to Lang Zhiwan in the newspaper. Since then, the name "Polish slut" has been attached to Marie Curie's head. At her doorstep, there were always people gathering, and someone openly threw stones at the glass windows. Since then, Marie Curie has been plunged into a huge whirlpool.
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What makes Marie Curie stand firm in the waves is still rooted in her career. In desperation, Marie Curie received a telegram from Sweden: "You have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Letters are on hand. "This is a light in a desperate situation, but also the courage and confidence of Marie Curie to live."
Who knows, the Swedish chemist Alenius actually wrote to Marie Curie, asking her to voluntarily express her reluctance to accept the award, so as not to embarrass everyone. Marie Curie was furious, and she replied flatly: "This prize is awarded for the discovery of radium and polonium, science and personal life have nothing to do with it, I will act according to my beliefs." ”
On December 10, 1911, Marie Curie came to Sweden to attend the ceremony and gave a speech. In front of the world, Marie Curie raised her head high and once again proved to everyone that she was talented and strong...
But in the three years since she returned to Paris, Marie Curie has not been able to get out of the shackles of her soul. Arrogant by nature, she has thought about suicide again and again, but considering her mother's responsibility, she decided to reconcile with herself. After this storm, Marie Curie and Lang Zhiwan still maintained a precious friendship, after all, friends who can talk and resonate with them are too rare.
Lang Zhiwan and his wife Jenny also reached a settlement, divorce does not need to be mentioned again, but can be separated. Elena, Lang Zhiwan's student, later became his lover and bore him a son. Lang Zhiwan personally opened her mouth for Elena and asked Marie Curie to arrange a place for her in her laboratory, and Marie Curie agreed.
The Solvay Conference in 1927, which was attended by Europe's top scientists. After the meeting, Lang Zhiwan sat between Madame Curie and Einstein. From the perspective of body language, Marie Curie and Lang Zhiwan are still in love, especially the tiptoes of the two expose their hearts.
Don't mention the past again, life has been stormy. After all, I once loved deeply, and I left the past in the wind. Years later, Marie Curie's granddaughter, nuclear physicist Elena Curie. Joliot. Curie and Lang's grandson Michael. Lang Zhiwan married. I don't know what kind of emotion Madame Curie under the Nine Springs will make...