| Marie Curie Gifts
Marie Curie, born Maria Sklodowska, was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity. She was the first (and only) person who received Nobel Prizes in two different sciences. This girl-genius came into the world on November 7. As you can tell by the “Sklodowska,” she had a Polish upbringing. As for the “Curie,” she obviously also held French citizenship. Her father was a mathematician and physics teacher. Marie became a student at the University of Paris (she would later become the first female professor there) where she researched the magnetic properties of steel. While at university, she met her husband, Pierre Curie, and together, they studied radioactivity. She won a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903, and a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911. It was shortly after she was awarded her second Nobel Prize when she fell ill and was hospitalized for depression and a kidney ailment. Scholars agree that she died from aplastic anemia; a by-product from working so closely with radiation. She played with fire, but her contributions to the field of radiation validated those risks, and she had made her mark in history as one of the brightest female scientists.
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“A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.”
“I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.”
“There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.” |
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