2011 has been declared by the UNESCO International Year of Chemistry in honor of a woman born in Poland in 1867, exactly one hundred years ago that broke three world records in the history of scientific knowledge . It was the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize individually, the first person who was granted twice this award and to date, the only woman with two Nobel Prizes in different categories: Chemistry, obtained in 1911 by the discovery of radium and polonium, and Physics, which was granted in 1903 for the discovery spontaneous radioactivity with Henri Becquerel and Pierre Curie.
Salomea Marja Skłodowska was born, Marie Curie, Madame Curie and, as always called her students and colleagues (because, as his biographers have only those closest could address her simply as Marie), is one of the characters of the twentieth century the most widely written, from all points of view, a woman exceptional revolutionary whose complex personality is impossible to lock in one of the many labels that, throughout his life, he's tried to define.
age of 24, Marja Skłodowska left his native Warsaw, and with it the membership in the Flying School, a clandestine organization against the Russification of Polish education and came to Paris, poor as a rat, to start his studies, paid for his sister from Poland, Faculty of Sciences of the Sorbonne. The hardship of those years will undoubtedly custom wine, kept until the end of his life, the accurate accounting of each of your expenses for small they were, and its austere, enemy of any expression of luxury or vanity. The black suit that appears in almost all the pictures was her wedding dress, which elected precisely because of its simplicity for use also in the laboratory, and the same worn in Stockholm the night he read his speech accepting the Nobel Prize .
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A big cheer for My Book Dealer for lending so many, so good and at the most successful among them, which inspires this article: "Marie Curie: an honorable woman "by Francoise Giroud. And a million thumbs down for English publishers that will let the International Year of Chemistry without re-edit or this or the other major biography of Marie Curie (Maria's heroic life Curie ", written by her daughter Eve), both discontinued. gossip
Two more:
also a writer, Françoise Giroud was the Secretary of State for the Status of Women (well, as is) in the government of Giscard d'Estaing from 1974 to 1976 and the protagonist in the film satirized "Maso et Miso vont in bateau" directed by Delphine Seyrig (yes, the actress, was also a director and feminist) with Carole Roussopoulos, Ioana Wieder and Nadja Ringart. The joke of the title is not knowing whether Mme Giroud, interviewed in one of the most popular programs on French television audience, it is misogynist or masochistic, because in fact the world of feminism is anything but clear.
The photo above is from the First Solvay Conference of 1911.
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