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Marie Curie (November 7, 1867 - July 4, 1934) was born Warsaw Known as "Madame Curie", her full name is Maria Sk? odowska Curie, France eminence Poland Scientists of American descent, physicist , Chemist .
In 1903, the Curies and Becquerel Due to... radioactivity The research while jointly obtained Nobel Prize in Physics [1] In 1911, for the discovery of the element polonium and radium reacquire Nobel Prize in Chemistry [2] Thus becoming the world's first double winner Nobel Prize The people of Marie Curie's achievements include the creation of the theory of radioactivity and the invention of the isolation of radioactivity isotope Technology, discovery of two new elements polonium and radium. Under her guidance, people for the first time will radioisotope For treatment cancer . Due to prolonged exposure Radioactive material Curie died on July 4, 1934 due to aplastic disease Pernicious anemia Died. [3]
Chinese name
Marie Curie
Foreign name
Marie Sk? odowska Curie
alias
Marie Skwodowska; Madame Curie
nationality
France
Ethnic group
Descendants of Poland
Place of Birth
Poland Warsaw
Date of birth
November 7, 1867
Date of death
July 4th, 1934 [3]
Graduate School
Sorbonne University (Bachelor) , University of Paris (Master/Doctor)
occupation
physicist , Chemist
Representative works
Monographs on Radioactivity , Research on radioactive Substances (Doctoral thesis)
Major achievement
discovered Radioactive element radium and polonium
Major achievement
Measured some radioactive elements Half-life period
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911
10 prizes, 16 MEDALS, 104 honorary titles
Have faith in
science
husband
Pierre Curie
constellation
Scorpio
gender
female

biography

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Study stage

The Curies
Marie Curie was born on November 7, 1867 Kingdom of Poland Warsaw City a middle school teacher's family.
In September 1891, he went to Paris to study, and in November he entered the University of Salburn (i.e. University of Paris ) Department of Physics, Faculty of Science.
In April 1894, through the introduction of Polish scholar and physics professor Joseph Kowalski of the University of Foliburg, Switzerland, and Pierre Curie Get acquainted with the better equipped laboratories in order to take advantage of Curie's leadership.
Marie Curie at the age of 16
In April 1895, Marie Skorodowska's paper "Radioactivity of compounds of Uranium and thorium" was published Lippmann Read it at the Academy of Sciences.
On July 26, 1895, Marie married Pierre Curie in the Paris suburb of Ceau. Marie Curie was a high school teacher for girls.

Research stage

In August 1896, Mary passed the examination for the title of university graduate teacher. With the support of Schutzenberg (1827-1897), the director of the School of Physics and Chemistry, Marie obtained a position in the physics laboratory of the school, working with Pierre (head of the department).
Madame Curie
In July 1898, the Curies presented to the Academy of Sciences "On a New radioactive Substance in pitchblende", explaining the discovery of a new radioactive element No. 84 uranium 400 times stronger. Similar bismuth Curie suggested that the name of the new element be constructed after her native Poland polonium (polonium). Since then, the Curies have worked closely together to establish the earliest radiochemical working methods.
In December 1898, the Curies and their colleagues Belmont proposed to the Academy of Sciences "On the pitchblende contains a new material with strong radioactivity", indicating that a new element 88 was found, radioactive more than a million times stronger than uranium, named radium (Radium). Marie Curie's report on the discovery of the new element polonium, in Polish Warsaw Published in Sviatro Pictorial monthly magazine.
In March 1900, Marie began teaching physics at the Ecole Normale Superieure de Sevier, southwest of Paris. Mary's paper "On the Atomic Weight of radioactive barium compounds". The Curies presented their paper "On New Radioactive Substances and their Emission Lines" at the International Physical Society in Paris.
In October 1900, two German scholars, Warkov and Gieser, claimed that radium had a strange effect on biological tissue. The Curies later proved that radium rays burn the skin.
In 1902, after three years and nine months of refining, the Curies isolated trace amounts (one deciggram) from tons of residue. Radium chloride RaCl 2 The atomic weight of radium was measured to be 225, and the exact number was later determined to be 226.
The Curies are in the lab
In 1903, the Curies and Becquerel jointly won Nobel Prize in Physics .
In 1908, he wrote a preface to the Collection of Works of Pierre Curie, which recounts the author's achievements. The book was commissioned by the French Physical Society Langevin Editor, published in Paris. Promotion to professor.
In 1911, it was obtained by isolating pure metal radium Nobel Prize in Chemistry . The same year, participated in Brussels The first one held Solvay conference .
Madame Curie participated in the first Solvay Conference
In 1915, he moved from the Physics Laboratory of Solburn University to the Radiology Laboratory of the Radium Institute. Traveling around the country and abroad, guiding 18 battlefield medical service teams.
In 1916, a crash course in radiation was set up at the Radium Institute for hygienists to teach doctors new ways to locate foreign objects (such as shrapnel) in the human body The Entente countries The military approves.
In 1921, based on wartime notes, he wrote Radiology and War, published in Paris.
On March 8, 1921, he received China Peking University rector CAI Yuanpei . CAI visited Paris on his way abroad and invited Madame Curie to give lectures at Peking University. Answer: "This can not go, should be planned in the future summer vacation." It never happened. [4]
In May 1921, mother and daughter crossed the sea to the United States to receive a gram of radium from the United States Marie Curie Radium Fund fundraising Committee "Marie Curie Committee". The gift ceremony was held on the 20th Washington The White House Hosted by the President of the United States. to Philadelphia To receive five centigrams of neothorium; She gave it to her original piezoelectric quartz meter American philosophical society . The paper "On Isotopes and Isotopic Elements" was published in Paris.
Madame Curie and her friend Albert Einstein
In February 1922, he was elected a member of the Academy of Medical Sciences in Paris.
May 1922 World War I postestablished League of nations The Secretary-General, Sir Eric Drummond, was invited by decision of the International Council to participate in the Committee on International Cultural Cooperation established in the previous year. He was elected deputy Chairman. To that end, go often Geneva Attend meetings.
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In 1930, the French government applied for a special research grant and received 500,000 francs.
1934, book "Radioactivity" (Two volumes) Written, published in 1935. The Joliot Curies Under the guidance of Madame Curie, artificial radioactivity was discovered.
Madame Curie in her later years
In June 1934, he moved in Haute-Savoie Sanserum Sanatorium. July 4th, to malignant anaemia Died (caused by radium) in a sanatorium. Dr. Torbay wrote: "The disease she acquired was a rapid progression of secondary anemia with fever. The bone marrow has no hematopoietic response, probably because of the damage caused by the amount of radiation accumulated over time." Upon hearing the news, one of her favorite students, George Fournier, wrote, "We have lost everything." [3] CAI Yuanpei After hearing this, he was also very sad, and on July 8, 1934, he sent a message of condolence in French to express his condolences: University of Paris Mr. President: Surprised to learn of the death of Madame Curie, on behalf of Academia Sinica My condolences! I feel that her death is a great loss to the French scientific community, and please send my condolences to her family. CAI Yuanpei." [4] On 6 July, he was buried in the crypt in Soe, Paris. Her brother (Joseph Skorodowski) sister (Bronischlawa Deluska) Sprinkle the grave with soil brought from Poland. [3]

Personal life

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Family relationship

Marie Curie was born on November 7, 1867 Kingdom of Poland Warsaw City a middle school teacher's family. His father, Vladislav Skorodovsky, was a secondary school mathematics teacher, and his mother, Bronislova Bokuska Skorodovska, was the head of a girls' boarding school. Her younger name is Maria Skorodowska. Her family's love for her is called "Manya". Maria was the fifth, with three sisters, Sophie, Bronischlavas, Helena, and her brother Joseph.
Mary befriended a lecturer at the Sorbonne, Pierre Curie Who would later be her husband. The two of them often do it together Radioactive material The study takes tons of industrial waste slag because the total radioactivity of this ore is greater than what it contains uranium More radioactive than that. In 1898, the Curies proposed a logical deduction for this phenomenon: the pitchblende ore must contain some unknown radioactive component, whose radioactivity is far greater than that of uranium. On December 26, Curie published her idea of the existence of this new substance.
The Curies in 1903
In the years that followed, the Curies continued to refine the radioactive components of pitchblende ore. After unremitting efforts, they finally succeeded in separating Radium chloride And discovered two new chemical elements: polonium (Po) and radium (Ra). For their discovery and research on radioactivity, the Curies and Henri Becquerel jointly obtained the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics Madame Curie thus became the first person in history to win Nobel Prize Of the women. Eight years later, in 1911, Madame Curie obtained it for successfully isolating the element radium Nobel Prize in Chemistry . Unexpectedly, after Madame Curie won the Nobel Prize, she did not patent the process of refining pure radium, but made it public, which effectively promoted it radiochemistry The development of... A student of Madame Curie and her husband in her later years Paul Langevin There was an affair, an affair that was all over France. In the November 4, 1911, headline of the Paris Press, "A Love Story: Madame Curie and Professor Langevin," it was rumored that Langevin and Madame Curie had close contacts while Pierre was still alive. Einstein His view of the matter was that if they were in love, no one would care, and he wrote a letter to Madame Curie on November 23, 1911, to comfort her.
in World War I During the period, Madame Curie advocated the use of radiology to save the wounded and promoted the application of radiology in the medical field. Later, in 1921, she traveled to the United States to raise money for radiology research. Marie Curie was killed in France on July 4, 1934, due to excessive exposure to radioactive material Haute-Savoie Died. After this, her eldest daughter Irena Joliot - Curie He was awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Her little girl Evie Curie After her mother died, she wrote" Madame Curie ". In the 1990s inflation Madame Curie's face has appeared on currency and stamps in Poland and France. Chemical element curium (Cm, 96) was named in honor of the Curies. [5]

Emotional storm

After the death of her husband, Marie Curie's life fell into a glacial state. until Paul Langevin Another great and brilliant mind intervened in her life. Langevin loved Marie Curie -- of course, his divorce failed. He also foolishly allowed his wife to get hold of Marie Curie's love letters to him, which were eventually published to the press. At the age of 45, Marie Curie fell into the trough of ruin.
The daughter of Paul Appe, one of Marie Curie's most loyal students and supporters, came into great conflict with her father when she stood before him and said, "If you dare to send her away, I shall never see you again, my father." She had never contradicted her father in all her life, but this was the only thing on which she showed her anger. She made the following clear words for her father and for the future: "If Marie Curie had been a man, none of this would have happened."
Marie Curie in this storm of public opinion, towards the fall of her life. For almost three years her spirit was in a state of collapse, she was crushed by the powerful, vicious, cruel hostility that surrounded her, and had to be admitted to a hospital run by nuns for both physical and psychological treatment.
Eventually she recovered. Strong will and work made her stand up again. After that, she continued to work for 22 years and continued to make great contributions to French and world science. [6]

Scientific research achievement

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Research field

1. The discovery of radioactive elements polonium (Po) and radium (Ra).
Marie Curie
2. The idea that − rays (now known to be composed of electrons) are negatively charged particles was proposed. [1]

Scientific achievement

In her experimental research, Marie Curie designed a measuring instrument that could not only measure whether a certain substance had rays, but also measure the strength of the rays. After repeated experiments, she found that the intensity of uranium rays is proportional to the amount of uranium in a substance, and has nothing to do with the state of uranium and external conditions.
Curie carried out a comprehensive examination of the known chemical elements and all the compounds, and made an important discovery: a chemical called thorium The element can also automatically emit invisible rays, which shows that the phenomenon of elements can emit rays is not only a property of uranium, but a common property of some elements. She calls this phenomenon radioactivity An element that has this property is called Radioactive element . The rays they give off are called" radiation ".
By the end of 1902, Madame Curie had extracted a tenth of a gram of extremely pure Radium chloride And its atomic weight was accurately determined. The existence of radium has since been confirmed. Radium is an extremely difficult to get natural radioactive substance, its body is shiny, like fine salt like white crystals, radium has a slightly blue fluorescence, and it is this beautiful light blue fluorescence, into a woman's beautiful life and unyielding faith. In spectral analysis, it is associated with any known element Spectral line It's all different. Radium was not the first radioactive element discovered, but it was the most radioactive element. By using its strong radioactivity, many new properties of radiation can be further identified. So that many elements can be further applied in practice. Medical research has found that radium rays have very different effects on a variety of different cells and tissues, and those cells that reproduce quickly are soon destroyed by radium irradiation. This discovery made radium a powerful treatment for cancer. carcinoma It is made up of cells that multiply exceptionally rapidly, and radium rays damage it far more than the surrounding healthy tissue. The new treatment quickly developed in countries all over the world. In the French Republic, radium therapy is called Curie therapy. The discovery of radium fundamentally changed the basic principles of physics, and it is of great significance to promote the development of scientific theory and its application in practice.

The notes are still radioactive

Nobel Prize authority Twitter A popular science bulletin was issued saying that the notebook used by Marie Curie in her laboratory from 1899 to 1902 was still radioactive and would remain so for 1,500 years. Because some of her books and papers were still highly radioactive, they had to be kept in lead boxes. "It also shows that the scientific legacy of Marie Curie is practically untouchable." The Nobel Prize website calls her "an icon of modern science." [7]

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  • Author name Marie Curie
    Work time 2017-7
    Madame Curie is a 2009 book published by the Commercial Press and written by Eve Curie. The book "Madame Curie Biography" reviews the extraordinary life of Madame Curie, a great woman who has influenced the process of the world, mainly describes Madame Curie's quality, her working spirit, and her attitude. The author, Eve Curie, tells the reader in detail that in addition to her mother's excellent achievements in the field of science, she also used her life to deal with the world.

Character works

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works
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On the Chemistry of Radium Rays (with Pierre Curie)
The year 1899
On the Atomic Weight of radioactive Barium
The year 1900
Newly Discovered Radioactive Substances and the Rays they Emit (with Pierre Curie)
The year 1900
Decay Theory of Radioactive Processes
The year 1900
On Radioactive Substances
The year 1901
On the Atomic Weight of Radium
1902
Research on radioactive Substances
The year 1903
On the Nature of Release
The year 1910
Isotopes and Their Composition
The year 1921
Biography of Pierre Curie
The year 1924
Radiology
The year 1935
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Personal honor

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Madame Curie was the first woman in history to win two Nobel Prize People, and were awarded Nobel Prizes in two different fields. [1]

bonus

12 December 1898 Genet Prize, Paris Academy of Sciences. [9]
Certificate when he won the Nobel Prize in 1903 [9]
December 11, 1900 Genet Prize, Paris Academy of Sciences. [9]
14 December 1902 Genet Prize, Paris Academy of Sciences. [9]
1903 Nobel Prize in Physics (with Henri Becquerel and Pierre Curie All right). [10]
The Osilly Prize, 4 January 1904 (awarded by the Paris Newspaper Syndicate, in conjunction with Etua Branley). [9]
May 6, 1907 Actonian Prize, Royal Society of Science.
Madame Curie's 1911 Nobel Prize certificate.
1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
April 23, 1921 Ellen Richards Research Grant. [9]
15 March 1924 The Grand Prize of 1923 by the Marquis of Argendey, with a bronze medal, of the Association for the Promotion of French Industry. [9]
1931 Cameron Prize, University of Edinburgh Awarded.

medal

1903 Berthelot Medal (with Pierre Curie).
1903 Medal of Honor of the City of Paris (with Pierre Curie).
Davy Medal, Royal Society, London, 5 November 1903 (with Pierre Curie). [9]
Matchi Medal, 8 August 1904, of the Italian Scientific Society (with Pierre Curie). [9]
19 January 1908 Kerman Gold Medal, Leer Industrial Association. [9]
January 6, 1909 Elliott Krewson Gold Medal, Franklin Institute. [9]
Albert Medal, Royal Society of Arts, London, 4 July 1910. [9]
Grand Cross of the Order of Alphonse XII of Spain, 28 April 1919. [9]
1921 Benjamin Franklin Medal, American Philosophical society , Adelphia. [9]
April 13, 1921 John Scott Medal, American Philosophical Society, Adelphia. [9]
1921 Gold Medal of the National Academy of Social Sciences, New York.
1921 William Gibbs Medal, American Chemical society , Chicago.
1922 Gold Medal of the American College of Radiology.
August 4, 1924 Romania First Class government order with certificate and gold medal. [9]
1929 New York City Federation of Women's Clubs Medal.
Medal of the American College of Radiology, 16 April 1931. [9]

Honorary title

1 December 1904 Honorary Member of the Association of Friends of Anthropology and Ethnography of the Moscow Empire. [9]
9 May 1904 Honorary Member of the Royal Society of Science. [9]
May 18, 1904 Foreign Member of the Chemical Society of London. [9]
15 September 1904 Corresponding member of the Batavi Philosophical Society. [9]
1904 Honorary member of the Mexican Physical Society.
May 4, 1904 Honorary Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. [9]
1904 Honorary member of the Committee for the Promotion of Industry and Commerce in Warsaw.
6 November 1906 Corresponding Member of the Argentine Scientific Society. [9]
February 2, 1907 University of Edinburgh Honorary Doctor of Laws. [9]
25 May 1907 Foreign Member of the Dutch Scientific Society. [9]
29 January 1908 Corresponding Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg. [9]
10 March 1908 Honorary member of the Brunswickd Society of Natural Sciences. [9]
The year 1909 University of Geneva Honorary Doctor of Medicine.
March 31, 1909 Corresponding member of the Bologna Society of Natural Sciences. [9]
1909 Foreign co-member of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts.
September 27, 1909 Honorary officer of the Philadelphia College of Medicine. [9]
Member of the Academy of Sciences, Krakow, 1909.
Member of the Chilean Academy of Sciences, 19 December 1910. [9]
April 23, 1910 Member of the American Philosophical Society. [9]
The year 1910 Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Foreign academician.
March 1, 1910 Member of the American Chemical Society. [9]
1910 Honorary Member of the Physical Society of London.
1911 Honorary Member of the London Society for Psychical Studies.
Foreign corresponding Member of the Portuguese Academy of Sciences, 19 April 1911. [9]
November 24, 1911 University of Manchester Honorary Doctor of Science. [9]
16 April 1912 Honorary Member of the Belgian Chemical Society. [9]
12 April 1912 Co-member of the Imperial Academy of Experimental Medicine in St. Petersburg. [9]
1912 Full member of the Warsaw Scientific Society.
1912 Honorary member of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Remburg.
1912 Member of the Photographic Society of Warsaw.
1912 Honorary Doctor of Remburg Technical School.
1912 Honorary member of the Werner Scientific Society.
21 May 1913 Special Fellow of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Amsterdam (Department of Mathematics and Department of Physics). [9]
The year 1913 University of Birmingham Doctor.
15 January 1913 Honorary Member of the Edinburgh Union of Sciences and Arts. [9]
In March 1914 Moscow University Honorary member of the Society of Physical Medicine. [9]
30 May 1914 Honorary Member of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. [9]
Honorary Member, London Institute of Health, 15 April 1914. [9]
April 22, 1914 Corresponding Fellow, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. [9]
1 April 1918 Honorary Member of the Royal Spanish Society of Medical Electricity and Medical Radiology. [9]
April 25, 1919 Honorary President of the Royal Spanish Society of Medical Electricity and Medical Radiology. [9]
5 July 1919 Honorary President of the Radium Institute in Madrid. [9]
The year 1919 University of Warsaw Professor emeritus.
1919 Member of the Polish Chemical Society.
1920 General Fellow of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.
June 10, 1921 Yale University Honorary Doctor of Science. [9]
July 18, 1921 University of Chicago Honorary Doctor of Science. [9]
June 15, 1921 Northwestern University Honorary Doctor of Science. [9]
May 13, 1921 Smith College Honorary Doctor of Science. [9]
July 12, 1921 Wellesley College Honorary Doctor of Science. [9]
May 3, 1921 Doctor, Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania. [9]
June 1, 1921 Columbia University Doctor of Science. [9]
The year 1921 University of Pittsburgh Honorary Doctor of Law.
The year 1921 University of Pennsylvania Honorary Doctor of Laws.
1921 Honorary member of the Society of Natural Sciences of Bouvaro.
1921 Honorary member of the Mineralogical Club of New York.
1921 Honorary Member of the American College of Radiology.
1921 Honorary member of the New England Chemistry Teachers Association.
1921 Honorary member of the American Museum of Natural History.
1921 Honorary member of the New Jersey Chemical Society.
1921 Honorary Member of the Industrial Chemical Society.
1921 Member of the Crestianian Academy.
1921 Honorary lifetime Fellow of Knox College of Arts and Sciences.
1921 Honorary member of the Radium Society of America.
1921 Honorary Member of the Norwegian Society of Medical Radiology.
1922 Honorary member of the French League of New York.
1922 Free co-member of the Academy of Medical Sciences, Paris.
1922 Honorary member of the Russian Scientific Group of Belgium.
1923 Honorary Member of the Romanian Society of Medical Mineralogy and Climatology.
1923 Honorary Doctor of Laws, University of Edinburgh.
1923 Honorary member of the Czechoslovak Union of Mathematicians and Physics, Prague.
1924 Honorary citizen of Warsaw.
In 1924, his name was inscribed alongside Bast on a building in New York City Hall.
1924 Honorary Doctorate, Polish Chemical Society, Warsaw.
The year 1924 University of Krakow Honorary Doctor of Medicine.
1924 Honorary Doctor of Philosophy, University of Krakow.
1924 Honorary citizen of the city of Riga.
1924 Honorary member of the Athenian Society for Psychical Studies.
1925 Honorary member of the Medical Society of Lublin, Poland.
1926 Ordinary member of the "Pontificia Tiberina" of Maro.
1926 Honorary member of Sao Paulo Chemical Society, Brazil.
1926 Corresponding member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.
1926 Honorary member of the Brazilian Federation for the Advancement of Women's Rights.
1926 Honorary Member of the Pharmaceutical and Chemical Society of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
1926 Honorary Doctorate, Department of Chemistry, Warsaw Technical School.
1927 Honorary Member of the Moscow Academy of Sciences.
1927 Honorary Member of the Bohemian Literary and Scientific Society.
The year 1927 Soviet Academy of Sciences Honorary Academician.
1927 Honorary member of the American Federation of Interstate Medical Graduate Students.
The late Madame Curie in 1934.
1927 Honorary Member of the New Zealand Institute.
1929 Honorary member of the Society of Friends of Science, Poznan, Poland.
The year 1929 University of Glasgow Honorary Doctor of Laws.
Honorary Citizen of Glasgow 1929.
The year 1929 St. Lawrence University Honorary Doctor of Science.
1929 Honorary Fellow of the New York Academy of Medical Sciences.
1929 Honorary member of the Polish American Medical and Dental Association.
1930 Honorary member of the French Association of Inventors and Scholars.
1930 Honorary President of the Association of Inventors and Scholars of France.
1931 Honorary member of the Geneva World Peace Federation.
1931 Honorary member of the American College of Radiology.
1931 Foreign corresponding member of the Faculty of Pure Physics and Natural Sciences, Madrid.
1932 Member of the Royal Academy of Natural Sciences, Halle.
1932 Honorary member of the Warsaw Medical Society.
1932 Honorary Member of the Czech Chemical Society.
1933 Honorary Member of the British Institute of Radiology and the Roentgen Society, London. [5]

Social evaluation

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Einstein "Of all the world's famous people, Marie Curie is the only one who has not been spoiled by fame." [11]
President of the Academy of Sciences Xiaofal: Marie Curie, we salute you as a great scholar, a great woman dedicated to her work and sacrifice for science, a patriot who has always worked with extra responsibility in war and in peace. You are here, we can derive spiritual benefits from you, we thank you; We are proud to have you among us. You are the first French woman to enter the Academy of Sciences, and deservedly so. [5]
In his tribute to Marie Curie, Einstein said, "The importance of the first class to the course of times and history is perhaps greater in its moral aspect than in its mere intellectual achievements." Even the latter, they depend on character to a far greater extent than is generally supposed." [12]