Marie Curie, big. The largest.

2019/10/11 Galarraga Aiestaran, Ana - Elhuyar Zientzia

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Marie Curie was Polish, small and thin, silent and shy. Born in 1867, with 24 years he moved to Paris and enrolled in the Sorbonne. The comrades were surprised: a woman in the world of men! Marie saw clearly that she had to work harder than men to make room. Envy, prejudice… and, as a gift, the huge bloodletting of the poor: empty pockets.

He lived in a small attic, but devoted most of the hours to the tempering of the library. Once closed, he returned to the clique and continued studying without noticing the cold. Very (very good!) he ate little and was stunned several times in college. However, it was the first of the promotion.

The first of the promotion, the first woman who won the doctorate in France, the first woman who won the Nobel Prize, the first woman who won the chair at the Sorbonne, the first scientist who won two Nobel… Impressive.

How did he get all this? Working and working. But I also had time to help: I. During the World War, he taught allies to use x-rays with the help of his daughter Irene. He died in 1934, with leukemia, probably for several years of work under the influence of radio.