
Marie Curie: The Mother of Radioactivity
Hindsight
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X Rays Could Save Lives
In 19 11, i won my second noble prize for chemistry. It was also the year pierre langevan's wife sent the love letters he had written to mary cure to the newspapers. Many of them turned against me, and i was forced into hiding. Even those at the royal swedish academy of sciences wanted me to stay away from the nobele ceremony. But albert einstein, yes, the one and only, wrote me a lovely letter in the middle of it all. I couldn't accept that the value of scientific work should be influenced by gossip and scandal concerning one's private life.
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