Marie Curie (1867- 1934), a French and Polish scientist, studied radioactive phenomena and found two radioactive elements, radium and polonium, and won the Nobel Prize twice in her life. Marie Curie (1867- 1934), a French and Polish scientist, studied radioactive phenomena and found two radioactive elements, radium and polonium, and won the Nobel Prize twice in her life. As an outstanding scientist, Madame Curie has social influence that ordinary scientists do not have. Especially because she is a pioneer of successful women, her model has inspired many people. Many people heard her story when they were young, but they got a simplified and incomplete impression. The world's understanding of Madame Curie. It was greatly influenced by the biography Madame Curie published by her second daughter 1937. This book beautifies Madame Curie's life and deals with all the twists and turns she encountered in her life. American biographer susan quinn spent seven years collecting unpublished diaries and biographical materials, including Madame Curie's family members and friends. Last year, a new book, Maria Curie: A Life, was published, which described her hard, bitter and struggling life in more detail.

life experience

If you only look at your resume, it's easy to think that Maria Curie is just a successful scientist with smooth sailing. She was born in Warsaw, Poland on June 1867+0 1. There is a brother, three sisters, and both parents are teachers. She/kloc-graduated from high school with the first place at the age of 0/5. Then I worked as a tutor for several years. 189 1 I went to Sorbonne, the merged university of Paris, and graduated from 1894, obtaining two certificates in mathematics and physics. 1895, she married pierre curie, who taught at the Paris Institute of Industrial Physical Chemistry. 1897, her eldest daughter Ilyina was born in the autumn. Previously on ... She did magnetic research with gabriel lippmann of Paris University and published her first paper. At this time, in order to prepare her doctoral thesis, she started a new project in Pierre's laboratory, and Pierre soon joined his wife's work. Their experiment notes started from1897 65438+February 6th, and recorded the first observation of polonium on February 7th1898. After several months of follow-up analysis, they put forward two important findings in the report formally submitted to the French Academy of Sciences on July 18: one is the element polonium, and the other is the concept of R radioactivity. The discovery of purification of polonium and separation of another new element radium greatly stimulated chemical research; Radioactivity research is a breakthrough in the study of substance essence. 1903 In June, Madame Curie passed the thesis defense and was awarded the doctor's degree in physics. 165438+1At the beginning of October, the Curies were awarded the humphry davy Medal); Royal society; 165438+1In mid-October, I learned that becquerel and I won the Nobel Prize in physics in recognition of their research on radioactive phenomena. 1905 They got their second daughter Eve. Pierre died in 1906. 19 1 1 Madame Curie won the Nobel Prize in chemistry. In recognition of her discovery of polonium and radium. Madame Curie died in 1934. 1935, her eldest daughter, Elon, and her son-in-law Frederic Joliot-Curie won the Nobel Prize in chemistry (their scientific discoveries were known to Madame Curie when she was alive). 1937 Madame Curie, published by my second daughter, became a popular biography all over the world.

If only measured by career achievements. It is not hard to imagine that Madame Curie was very happy all her life. She set two records: the same family won the largest number of Nobel Prizes, and one person won two Nobel Prizes. However, the success of a career cannot be simply put into the formula of "talent, effort and opportunity", otherwise the individual's unique personality and experience will be submerged. Reading Susan Quinn's new book, we can see that Madame Curie's life is not smooth sailing, and she has to face many adversity that ordinary people will encounter, from which we can also see Madame Curie's character.