Scientist who refused to patent her discoveries: Marie Curie

Let's take a closer look at the life of Marie Curie, one of the most important people who has stamped the history of science.
She was born in Warsaw in the Polish city of Marya Sklodowska. In 1891 he came to Paris to study physics and graduated from the Sorbonne with the highest degree of physics in her era. When she returned to Poland and was thinking as a teacher, he married pierre curie, a physicist working in paris.

The couple who are already interested in the new invention of becquerel decided that marie's doctoral thesis should be on the nature and source of becquerel's rays.
In 1898, marie, with the help of her husband, spent time with her doctoral research as she was doing laboratory work on finding a new element. When they divided the ore into chemical components, they found not one, but two new elements. The first of these elements was polonium. It took four years to isolate the second element, which is more radioactive than the polonium and what they call radium.

Marie and Pierre Curie live a life full of financial problems and were working under bad conditions. they requested a larger laboratory for the purification of polonium and radium, but were turned away. they were allowed to use the abandoned shed next to the lab.
In 1903, marie presented her doctoral thesis and was later awarded the Marie and Pierre Nobel Prize in Physics. she was the first woman to receive this award.

marie and pierre curie were people with very high moral values. While they could make a fortune by patenting the radium isolation methods, they gave their information to every person and company they wanted.

In 1904 he was appointed professor of physics at the pierre sorbonne and was offered a labaratory like she imagined throughout his life. but pierre's life was not enough to see this lab. Marie took over her professorship and became the first woman to receive professorship at the Sorbonne.
Marie Curie had worked so hard with large amounts of radio that she had been exposed to overdose radioactivity during her work life. He had leukemia after radiation and died in 1934.

In her speech at the 25th anniversary of the discovery of radium;

"but if we can't do much more, maybe each one of us can add something modest to his dream about the dream of humanity. I am one of those who think that they have beauty and that a spiritual power will one day save the world from the devils, ignorance, poverty, diseases, wars and suffering.
Look for distinctive light of truth, look for obvious new ways, even if the field of view of mankind is not too far. divine justice will never disappoint us. every age has its own dream. leave the dream of yesterday, but the torch of the future, build the palace of the future .. "

In addition, his life story was the subject of the film named madam curie in 1943.
the radium scholar Muze made their house. When you go in the absence of the second floor of the stairs at the end of the huge floor next to the small window, marie to play the pool once played, to look at the garden of his time, trying to imagine the life of the house itself between the walls is a feeling as good as reading the written book about his life.

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