"When you consider someone’s legacy in science you might think about their biggest discovery their list of publications or their titles, awards and prizes. But another kind of scientific legacy involves the students and colleagues that passed through a scientist’s orbit over the course of a career."
She was an amazing woman. So many women have help to bring us to where we are today; through the arts, science, and so many other ways. Pregnancy itself is not the safest of things. Let us all resolve to value the women in our lives for all that they do.
Thank you so much for posting this book about Marie Curie & the women who worked with her. My daughter is a forestry scientist & her daughter is a bio-chem engineer. So I'm going to order this book for their birthdays. 😘
Actually, she herself used the name Marie Skłodowska-Curie. She never wanted her Polish heritage to fade away. According to French tradition, it’s Curie-Skłodowska, whereas in Polish, it’s Skłodowska-Curie.
To everyone: please refer to her by her full name. We Poles are quite protective of it 🇵🇱
I always pointed out the accomplishments of female scientists in my high school science classes. Marie and Pierre Curie discovered radiation in the late 1800’s. Pierre was hit by a carriage and killed at a relatively young age. Marie continued their work. Then, their daughter continued their work.
Just watched “Radioactive,” with Rosamund Pike. Okay. Good effort to depict the physics in layman terms. A fan of stories about female scientists and their struggles.
Sorry but I'm afraid I will have to report this book and post for celebrating women in science, a clear case of anti-male discrimination. Thankfully, she isn't black too.
I was a big fan of Marie Curie as a child and I don't ever remembering reading about her mentorship of other women scientists. It feels like such a shame that I didn't get the joy of exploring that topic at that young age. Mad respect to her and all those who followed in her footsteps.
My Great Aunt knew the Curie's so she wrote about Madame Curie and won the 1939 Carnegie Award for writing this children's book. That war year she shared her award with another great Pearl S. Buck. (Bucks County, PA).
She was amazing. They said she was a woman who was 100 years before her time. No wonder she admired Madame Curie so much. Her name was Eleanor Doorly. She loved France as though she was born there. Born in Ireland, family left for the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica. Educated at a French Lycee.
People forget it was her and her husband who did the work. This isn't a gender rant. It's actually a pleasant story that they loved to work together, quite romantic.
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She never gave up her maden name but history has decided only her husbads surname is a fit memory for her.
alas a DEI according to MAGA. She will also be removed from their history books, as are females in the US military
stop erasing her polish heritage please people
But missed from the Radioactive movie :
How isolated or found the uranium...
Coal mining , breathway ill + fail of the mine workers...
Marie Curie was a Baller & Shot Caller!!
Kiepski styl, gdy przekręca się nazwisko kobiety, a może mizogin,któremu nie w smak dorobek tej naukowczyni.
To everyone: please refer to her by her full name. We Poles are quite protective of it 🇵🇱
When are you going to call her by her name Maria Salomea Skłodowska? 🇵🇱 ❤️
Was she a DEI hire?
Better?