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Marie Curie
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All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
— Pierre Curie (1923), as translated by Charlotte Kellogg and Vernon Lyman Kellogg, p. 162
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
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Lived 1867–1934, aged 67
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The only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences — physics, then chemistry. She named radioactivity, built the field from scratch, and was ultimately killed by it: the notebooks she wrote in are still too radioactive to handle without lead-lined gloves.
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Born Maria Skłodowska in Warsaw in 1867, she left a partitioned Poland — where universities were closed to women — for Paris, studying physics while half-starving in a garret. With her husband Pierre she isolated polonium and radium from tons of raw ore, sharing the 1903 Nobel in Physics; after Pierre's death she won a second, in Chemistry, in 1911, alone. She built mobile X-ray units for the battlefields of the First World War, then ran the Radium Institute that trained a generation of scientists. The radiation she handled with bare hands for decades destroyed her health, and she died in 1934…
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Marie Curie
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You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.
— Pierre Curie (1923), as translated by Charlotte Kellogg and Vernon Lyman Kellogg, p. 168
Marie Curie
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We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science.
— Lecture at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York (14 May 1921)
Marie Curie
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The chief difficulty lay in the fact that pitchblende is a very complex mineral and contains in varying quantities nearly all the known metals.
— by Ernest Rutherford (a 2nd edition was published in 1905).
Marie Curie
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Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.
— 'La vie n’est facile pour aucun de nous. Mais quoi, il faut avoir de la persévérance, et surtout de la confiance en soi. Il faut croire que
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