Physicist Albert Einstein (1879-1955) had cat, dog and parrot and Marie Curie (1867-1934) had a pet tiger.
While earning her degree in Paris, Curie lived frugally and ate mostly buttered bread and tea—a diet that often caused her to faint from hunger. 3.
Twice Buried. Our favorite two-time Nobel laureate was also buried twice! Madame Curie died of leukemia attributed to her radioactive work, and was buried alongside her husband Pierre in 1934. However, their remains would be re-interred at the Panthéon in 1995 with full honors.
She already had her white hair, but she was beautiful, she dressed well, often with big black dresses, she wore hats, and when she worked, she wore black coats too.
“Marie Curie's decades of exposure left her chronically ill and nearly blind from cataracts, and ultimately caused her death at 67, in 1934, from either severe anemia or leukemia,” wrote Denis Grady for The New York Times. “But she never fully acknowledged that her work had ruined her health.”
Did you know that the first woman to win the Nobel Prize and discover two new elements, Marie Curie, had a daughter who had a cat who was named Dido? Anyways, I am a small, fuzzy tiger cat with a black stripe down my back.
“Radium,” she said. “Radium?” “Those were her last words— 'Was it done with radium or with mesothorium?
Red and white, the colour of her native Poland flag.
The cause of her death was given as aplastic pernicious anaemia, a condition she developed after years of exposure to radiation through her work. She left two daughters, Irene (born 1898) and Eve (born 1904).
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” “One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.”
Marie Curie died in 1934 of leukemia, which was caused by the exposure to the radiation that marked her life's work.
Marie Curie: IQ 180–200
Not only was Marie Curie the first woman to win the Nobel Prize, but she was also the first person to win it twice. Most of her work focused on radioactivity—discoveries that contributed to the development of X-rays used during surgery.
Her Madame Curie was young, thin, and beautiful, but did not wear glasses. The real Marie Curie did.
Marie was almost excluded from winning the award, simply because she was a woman. In 1902, a doctor on the Nobel committee named Charles Bouchard had nominated Marie for her work on radioactivity, along with Pierre and Henri Becquerel, but they were passed over that year.
Albert Einstein (back, second from right) and Marie Curie (front, second from right) met at the 1911 Solvay Conference on Physics.
“One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.” “Few persons contributed more to the general welfare of mankind and to the advancement of science than the modest, self-effacing woman whom the world knew as Mme. Curie.”
The distinguished scientific tradition of the Curie family still lives on. Hélène Langevin-Joliot, the daughter of Irène and Frédéric Joliot-Curie, is a well-respected nuclear physicist in France. Hélène's husband, Michael Langevin, is also a nuclear physicist, and their son is an astrophysicist.
Tigers are not domesticated cats. None of the six surviving species of tiger (another three are extinct) should be kept as pets. A majority of states in the U.S. have instituted bans on keeping any of the big cat species as pets.
Madame Curie, as she became known, was often praised for more than scientific achievement: “an exceedingly attractive woman, a delicate blonde with fair, blue eyes,” burbled one New York Times profile from 1903. A few months later she won her first Nobel Prize (in Physics, shared with Henri Becquerel and her husband).
Although, quite ironically, she helped save a million lives (directly) by using radiation, which has developed drastically in recent times to have saved millions more!
She founded the Curie Institute in Paris in 1920, and the Curie Institute in Warsaw in 1932; both remain major medical research centres. During World War I she developed mobile radiography units to provide X-ray services to field hospitals.
A Remarkable Woman. Born in Warsaw, in the Russian par on of Poland, on No-vember 7, 1867 to a school principal mother and teacher fa-ther, Maria Skłodowska was one of 5 children. She was an excellent student who loved physics, chemistry, math, biol-ogy and music. She spoke Polish, Russian, French and Eng-lish.
Curie was a pioneer in researching radioactivity, winning the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 and Chemistry in 1911. Curie never worked on the Manhattan Project, but her contributions to the study of radium and radiation were instrumental to the future development of the atomic bomb.