Radioactive directed by Marjane Satrapi (Biography : Madam Curie)
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“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
― Marie Skłodowska Curie
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(I'm using their westernized names on purpose to avoid biasing the poll pls don't kill me)
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Marie Salomea Skłodowska–Curie (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.
She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and the only woman to win a Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields.
Her husband, Pierre Curie, was a co-winner of her first Nobel Prize, making them the first-ever married couple to win the Nobel Prize and launching the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes.
She was the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris in 1906.
Indefatigable despite a career of physically demanding and ultimately fatal work, she discovered polonium and radium, championed the use of radiation in medicine and fundamentally changed our understanding of radioactivity.
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I was intrigued why DollDivine (that iconic site with dressing games) has only English, Spanish AND Polish as language options and it turns out that this site is created by a Polish woman. We keep giving y'all the best of the best.
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Intresting
To go back to early december. Anne L'Huillier who got the nobel prize in physics is called the second French woman to get the nobel prize in physics after Marie Skłodowska* Curie. The thing is that wikipedia calls her “French-Swedish physicist”, so Anne L'Huillier should also be the first Swedish woman who got the prize? Sure if you know your science history, you know that the Austrian Swedish physicist Lise Meitner should have shared the prize in 1944 because of her hypothesis about nuclear fission. But apparently back in the days you couldn’t be a woman and get a scientific nobel prize unless your last name was Curie, that’s another story. The third story might be that Lise Meitner ended up in Stockholm when it seems like all other Jewish scientists from Central Europe emigrated to the US (largest brain gain in history?).
* According to a Polish Swedish guy I knew, Marie Skłodowska Curie was very keen on keeping her Polish name.
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If I had a nickel every time the French tried to pretend a famous Polish person was French id have two nickels, which isnt a lot buut its weird it happened twice.
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Big Finish have revealed the cover artwork for the third Eighth of March boxset - which will, of course, release on March 8 - International Women’s Day.
You can pre-order it at the link above.
[ID image shows Michelle Gomez as Missy with Caitlin Blackwood as young Amelia Pond behind her right shoulder and Louise Jameson as Leela behind her left shoulder. Behind Leela is Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor and behind him is Holly Jackson Walters as Marie Skłodowska–Curie. At the bottom of the image is a steam train which is racing along a track from right to left.]
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The more I learn about Marie Skłodowska–Curie the more I realize she's a fucking badass hello???
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