Introduction: After experiencing that storm, Marie Curie said calmly to her daughter: "In a world where men make rules, they believe that women's functions are sex and procreation. ”
Marie curie
Marie Curie was a Polish native, her original name was Marie Skovodowska, and later married her husband Pierre Curie, before she was called Marie Curie.
In 1981, she went to Paris to study, entering the Department of Physics at the University of Paris. In order to pursue a better experimental environment, in 1894, Marie met pierre Curie, the laboratory director of the Paris School of Physics and Chemistry at the time, and the two were like-minded, sparking love, and a year later the two married, and the name was changed to Marie Curie.
In 1898, she and her husband Pierre Curie discovered radium. But this thing cannot be seen with the naked eye, it needs to be refined. In order to extract pure radium, the Curies sold everything of value in the family, used all their savings to buy more than a dozen tons of bitumen uranium slag, began a long and arduous purification experiment, and after 45 months and tens of thousands of refinements, they obtained 10 grams of radium chloride.
We all know that radium actually has a radioactive hazard to people, and the Curies are well aware of this when they are studying, but the Curies and their spouses have the sacrificial dedication of scientists, not only with all their savings, but also with all their hearts, dedicated to science, and made outstanding contributions to radioactive research.
Later, in 1903, the Curies won that year's Nobel Prize in Physics. Although she became famous in one fell swoop, as a woman, Marie Curie, her fate began.
In the case of this Nobel Prize in Physics, Marie Curie was actually the pioneer who really proposed the concept and theory of radioactivity, and her husband Pierre Curie was her assistant and studied with her.
But in the description of the outside world, Marie Curie became Pierre Curie's assistant. Because this 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics was not won by the Curies alone, another scientist who won it together was the French physicist Becquerel. In 1896, Becquerel was the first to discover natural radioactivity, although he found it, but there was no substantial research result, and the main work after that was still done by the Curies.
But in the list of Nobel laureates, Becquerel is ranked No. 1. The Curies, who really made a significant contribution to radioactivity research, were left behind. What is even more incredible is that the outside world describes Pierre Curie as "Becquerel's assistant", and Marie Curie is also called "Pierre Curie's assistant".
Such claims are not based on real contributions, but on the fact that gender accounts for the bulk of the division. Just because Marie Curie was a woman, there is a remark by Becquerel that "Marie Curie's contribution was to serve as a good assistant to Pierre Curie, and this gives us reason to believe that God created women to be the best assistants to cooperate with men." ”
Although such unfair treatment will not be taken care of by Marie Curie, who regards fame and fortune as dung, it has opened the prelude to injustice to female scientists. As scientists and Nobel laureates rose to fame, Marie Curie's fortunes did not get better, but rather became more bumpy.
The most direct thing is that in 1906, three years after winning the Nobel Prize, Pierre Curie died on the spot in a car accident. Marie Curie, 39, is alone and continues to raise children and continue her physics research.
But then, a scientist named Paul Langewan broke into Marie Curie's life. Although Lang Zhiwan is 5 years younger than Mary, he is also very talented in physics research, after the death of Pierre Curie, Lang Zhiwan also gave Marie Curie a lot of help, over time, the relationship between the two people became more and more intimate, and friendship became love.
Originally, two people could fall in love together, but the problem was that Lang Zhiwan had a wife, and when he was born poor, he married Jenny, the daughter of a grocery store owner's wife, and as the days went on, the gap between the two people's thoughts and cognitions gradually appeared. He loves physics, but his wife Jenny doesn't want him to do any research, only wants him to make more money to support his family. Moreover, Jenny is grumpy and hot-tempered, and it is said that she once broke Lang Zhiwan's head because of an incident.
Marie Curie and Lang Zhiwan
At first, Marie Curie wanted to help Lang Zhiwan and his wife reconcile the contradictions, but later found that the contradictions between them were irreconcilable, and later advised them to divorce. But unfortunately, Lang Zhiwan and his wife divorced and failed, and even his wife Jenny also got a love letter written by Marie Curie to Lang Zhiwan, and she never bought it with a hot personality, and directly gave this love letter to the French media.
The gossip of scientists seems to be far more attractive than the research of scientists. After the media reported on the incident, the whole of France caused a huge sensation. Major media newspapers began to report on the "love affair" between Marie and Lang Zhiwan, and even maliciously wondered whether the two already had an "adulterous affair" when Pierre was alive? To make matters worse, many French people began to attack her house, smashing her windows with stones and shouting for her to get out of France...
The most crucial thing is that this love letter is not known whether it is true or false, and it is exposed. After the exposure, no one went to investigate whether it was true or false, so he directly put a hat on Marie Curie's ugly hats such as "Polish slut" and "thief", and a group of French scientists who were originally very supportive of Marie Curie also changed their position because of this matter, and jointly wrote a letter to let her leave France.
Among those who left her was her once closest comrade-in-arms, Paul Appel. However, Epper's daughter, a student of Marie Curie, was ashamed of her father's change of attitude and even broke off relations with his father. She said something worth pondering: "If Marie Curie were a man, none of this would have happened!" ”
Indeed it is. Einstein, also a physicist, mentioned his name, and the public thought of his outstanding contribution to the study of physics, and few people would think of his chaotic private life at first thought.
In the beginning, Einstein fell in love with the mathematician Mileva, and the two defied the opposition of the family, and conceived a daughter before marriage, it is said that at that time, unmarried pregnancy was taboo, and the daughter was given away. Later, the two married, and Mileva gave up her career for Einstein and became a housewife.
Not long after Einstein cheated on his cousin Elsa after marriage, he divorced Mileva and instead married his cousin. At that time, according to elsa's daughter's letter, Einstein was entangled at the time, and he was entangled so that he married Elsa or Elsa's daughter. And "generosity", such as Elsa, tells him that he can choose any one and choose who to marry.
Later, Einstein cheated on a married young woman who was also the niece of a friend. When Elsa found out, instead of being angry and noisy, elsa allowed Einstein to date his lover regularly. Although Einstein was a great man of physics, his private life experience is really amazing, and Marie Curie's affair is simply a witch compared to him.
So Einstein, as a good friend of Marie Curie, also wrote a letter to speak for Marie Curie. He said: "If two people love each other, then no one has the right to interfere. ”
The truth is such a truth, but at that time, when it was placed on a woman, it became a huge disaster.
After being exposed by the French media, Lang Zhiwan and Marie Curie separated for a while and then returned to their wives. He negotiated with his wife not to divorce, but she would allow him to openly have a female secretary as a lover. Many years later, Under the premise of having a wife, Lang Zhiwan also had a young female student as a lover. He was also a party, but he did not have any losses.
Marie Curie, on the other hand, was completely forced to bear all this. Because of this rumor, he was attacked to the point of no end, and for the next three years he was admitted to a nun-run hospital to avoid these malicious attacks.
Marie Curie is very clear about all this. After the storm, Marie Curie said calmly to her daughter: "In a world where men make the rules, they believe that the function of a woman is sex and procreation. "Men make rules that, whether they're right or wrong, can get away with it, and then leave women to bear the consequences."
In the years that followed, the rumors slowly waned, but people still held prejudices against her. Fortunately, Marie Curie did not care, and she continued to devote herself to radioactivity research, day after day, including bringing X-rays to the battlefield and saving 100,000 French soldiers. Contributing to the world, sacrificing herself, and because of her long-term work in the radiation environment, she suffered from malignant leukemia and really dedicated herself to science.
Throughout Marie Curie's life, although she suffered a lot of unfair treatment because of her gender, if her life experience is regarded as a battle against sexism, then she is undoubtedly victorious. Her remarkable contributions to physics also prove that women can also have the ability to change the world and prove themselves, not just "male assistants."
Author: Our team has a falling moon