Women Crowdfunded Radium For Marie Curie
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Women Crowdfunded Radium For Marie Curie
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Re: Women Crowdfunded Radium For Marie Curie
#2Scared of non ASCII characters? ;) It's Maria Skłodowska-Curie
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#3Scared of non ASCII characters? ;) It's Maria Skłodowska-Curie
This is kinda of sad, because wikipedia has her page titled as Marie Curie too. It is a bit ironic imo, because poles are very proud of her and yet at the time the country failed her, by not giving the possibility of attending university.
Re: Women Crowdfunded Radium For Marie Curie
#4Scared of non ASCII characters? ;) It's Maria Skłodowska-Curie
In history and pop-culture she's known as Marie Curie.
Heck, she event has a SI unit named after her, the Curie.
Re: Women Crowdfunded Radium For Marie Curie
#5Scared of non ASCII characters? ;) It's Maria Skłodowska-Curie
This is kinda of sad, because wikipedia has her page titled as Marie Curie too. It is a bit ironic imo, because poles are very proud of her and yet at the time the country failed her, by not giving the possibility of attending university.
> the country failed her, by not giving the possibility of attending university
The country didn't exist at the time, being partitioned between Prussia, Russia and Austria-Hungary. Poles didn't have much to say about the university admission policies of the Russian Empire, where she lived. She did, however, attend the so called Flying University [1], which was a higher education institution organized by Polish underground resistance.
Re: Women Crowdfunded Radium For Marie Curie
#6Scared of non ASCII characters? ;) It's Maria Skłodowska-Curie
In history and pop-culture she's known as Marie Curie. Heck, she event has a SI unit named after her, the Curie.
Time to change that, then. She insisted on using both surnames and strongly emphasized her Polish roots throughout her life. Erasing her Polish maiden name clashes with her wishes and is only possible, because due to historical circumstances Poland had very limited impact on global popular culture.
Re: Women Crowdfunded Radium For Marie Curie
#7Scared of non ASCII characters? ;) It's Maria Skłodowska-Curie
In history and pop-culture she's known as Marie Curie. Heck, she event has a SI unit named after her, the Curie.
1. Wikipedia states: "according to a notice in Nature at the time, it was named in honour of Pierre Curie, but was considered at least by some to be in honour of Marie Curie as well."
2. The Curie isn't an SI unit, the Becquerel (Bq) is.
Re: Women Crowdfunded Radium For Marie Curie
#8Were men excluded from crowdfunding for Marie Curie? So bad.
Re: Women Crowdfunded Radium For Marie Curie
#9Were men excluded from crowdfunding for Marie Curie? So bad.
I can't imagine they were, it's just that female academics of the time rallied together to rise the money. I doubt that if a man wanted to donate he would have been turned away.
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#10I would be very interested in knowing where did that radium come from? How was it produced at the time? The article says president Warren presented her with 1g of the element - how was it secured, in such a small quantity? Did she bring it back with her just in her purse? So many questions.