Marie Curie built a scientific dream from a shabby lab

No need for a modern laboratory or advanced equipment can come up with a great idea. Marie Curie became the famous female scientist from the most humid and shabby room a scientist could imagine.

Marie Sklodowska was born in 1867 in Warsaw (Poland). She and Pierre Curie discovered two new elements, polonium (named after Marie's homeland of Poland) and radium , however the mineral pitchblende (containing uranium) they analyzed contained too little amount of radium. They need a suitable working environment to filter new elements from minerals.

University of Paris (France), where Pierre works, has an old anatomy warehouse abandoned. People do not want to use it anymore because it is not suitable to remove corpses in it, but the two scientists see this as an ideal laboratory.

Doctor Marie Curie won two Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry from poor laboratory studies.(Photo: NancyRants).

A scientist who once visited Pierre's lab described it as follows: "It's a mixture of a stable and a potato stew. If you don't see a desk with scientific equipment, I thought it was a joke ".

Pierre found that Marie's love for science was no less than that of her, and that was his dream woman. In a rare letter to Marie (they were almost never apart from each other), he wrote a sincere proposal: "It will be a beautiful thing that you almost dare not believe, that we will share share a dream life: my dream for my homeland, our dream for humanity and our dreams for science ".

After becoming husband and wife, Pierre was fascinated by Marie's research on radiation. He gave up his crystal research work to help her. With inadequate material and abundant money, they worked in cold, damp, cold, wooden warehouses.

During the four years from 1898 to 1902, Marie reworked the experiments to separate all the different elements in the ore. She did not seriously stir the boiling masses. Her effort resulted when both filtered 0.1 grams of radium from a ton of pitchblende. It was a search of the needle at the bottom of the pool and Marie proved she could.

When the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics was determined to be awarded to the work on the radioactivity phenomenon of Marie Curie and his wife, Marie was not initially recognized. The Nobel Committee discussed this together: "Marie is only a wife, certainly has no contribution. Pierre is the one who does all the work." The award was given only to both after Pierre spoke up for his wife's honor.

Marie Curie gave the correct answer to those who misjudged her with the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. She became the first to win twice in two different fields. Not only that, their daughter Iréne Joliot-Curie followed the family tradition with a 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

At that time, Mr. and Mrs. Curie did not anticipate the dangers of stalking health when working with radioactive substances. Both suffered burns and radiation poisoning. Pierre even deliberately made himself burn radiation to monitor the effects. To this day, Marie's personal documents and belongings are still highly radioactive.

The famous female doctor of all time proves that a successful person does not need to go to a modern laboratory.

The effects of radioactivity prevent Marie from succumbing to illness at age 66. Pierre even left earlier by an unexpected accident in 1906. He was killed by a horse-drawn carriage while walking on the road. Marie talks about the loss: "It is impossible to describe how deep the pain brought about my life's crisis when I lost my best companion and best friend. I felt unable to I will not forget it, but as my husband used to say, I have to continue my work no matter what happens. "

And Marie continued the scientific path. For the rest of her life, she devoted herself to radioactive research. She founded the Radium Institute, pioneering the use of X-rays and radiotherapy to fight cancer. Not only that, during World War I, Marie designed and built more than 200 portable X-ray devices to help surgeons for more than a million wounded soldiers.

Although he has lived a meaningful life with great contributions to science, the first few years with Pierre build a dream in an abandoned warehouse is Marie Curie's most happy and creative time. Location and working conditions do not determine the outcome. Like Albert Einstein, many of the best ideas came when he worked at the patent office in Switzerland, the best moments in Marie Curie's career took place in the most dilapidated, shabby room a scientist had. Learning can imagine.

This famous female doctor of all time proves that a successful person does not need modern laboratories, large studios or state-of-the-art equipment. All they need is curiosity for new things, a clear purpose, unrelenting dedication and, best of all, having a companion towards the best things at work.