In 1911, she failed to be elected as an academician of the French Academy of Sciences by one vote because "there are no female academicians of the Academy of Sciences." Although Marie Curie previously won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for isolating pure metal radium, she became the only person in history to win both the Nobel Prize in Physics and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
She once calmly said to her daughter: "In a world where men make the rules..."
This is a society where men have vested interests and are unwilling to let go easily. This is true in both the East and the West, men's values, men's hobbies, men's interests, and the rules derived from them...
Her disappointment in the man's world is understandable. The 39-year-old widowed Mary Guy Rie fell in love with his husband's student, Paul Langevin, in a state that I personally find understandable.
What I am talking about is understandable, long-term help, getting along, having the same career, long-term love, and more importantly, as a teacher’s wife, witnessing the badness of their marriage, and the promise of a man. ,divorce.
Of course, the reason for the accusation is simply that he intervened in advance and had a substantial cohabitation relationship.
In essence, she is a woman and of Polish origin. Because in France, no man was accused for this reason, not Einstein, not even Langevin, who returned to his wife and openly had two lovers at the same time.
This problem can be seen more clearly many years later in how the French treat their president. The so-called romantic France can only allow men to be romantic, and can only allow men to be careless. From now on, don’t just talk about Chinese men being feudal. Selective bias is even more unfair.
Paul Appel's daughter said a very fair and to the point: "If Marie Curie had been a man, none of this would have happened!" Far better than his father's stupid words opinion.
Why Einstein is Einstein after all. Although his private life was also a mess, he had no sense of male pride and was a lifelong friend. He also spoke highly of Marie Curie throughout his life.
He not only supported Marie: "If two people love each other, no one has the right to interfere." He also publicly stated that Marie Curie's scientific achievements were unparalleled, but compared to her scientific achievements, her moral The brilliance is even more outstanding.
I think this recognition may come from daily life, including withdrawing from the life of Langevin and his wife, forbearance and sacrifice. To a greater extent, it is because she can easily become a billionaire without hesitation. gave up. Honor is indifferent, wealth is like discarded shoes. As a two-time Nobel Prize winner (or the only scientist to win both the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the Nobel Prize in Physics), he gave up his patents and closed his laboratory.
The First World War is coming...
At the end of October 1914, she learned X-ray science, studied human anatomy, passed the driving license test, and mastered car maintenance skills. Then, she assembled a mobile surgical cart that contained a generator, a hospital bed, and a mobile X-ray machine. When you go to the front line, you must know that in previous battlefield surgeries, you didn't know how many shrapnel there were or where they were before the operation.
It was many years later that the French government realized that her X-ray research had saved hundreds of thousands of French soldiers, and then they proudly awarded the medal. But by that time, she had died.
All honors have nothing to do with her, and she doesn't care about it. But if she doesn't care, can the world be patient with her?
She is undoubtedly a great woman, enough to put men who claim to be the masters of the world to shame.
All unfairness will disappear, but a record will be left.
Zhang Wei, the author of Steamed Bun Theory, said:
"Some people were a little aggrieved by the title "Madame Curie".
Because Marie Curie had her own After her husband passed away, she won many honors with her own efforts, but she was still called "Madame Curie".
In fact, I think that in this Chinese context, "Madam" is more of an honorific title rather than a representation of marital subordination. ”
In the Chinese context? Haha, Marie Curie is from the world.
I think this explanation is well-intentioned, but it is very reluctant and meaningless. Curie Mrs. Ritchie, let this title continue. Let us continue to stand in the history of human civilization and science.
Let us marvel at the glory and greatness of a woman, and also let us know the twists and turns of the history of world civilization. The unbearable past.