what were the great tragedies marie had to face early in life
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THE myth of Marie Curie is that she achieved success through a willingness to toil for months at a fantastically mind-numbing task – the dissolving, filtering and crystallising of several tonnes of the uranium ore pitchblende. The success she achieved was the isolation of the radioactive elements polonium and radium. While it is true that she toiled endlessly, it was her brilliant insight that radioactivity was a property of individual atoms that was critical to her success. This led her to make her daring guess that the unexpectedly intense radioactivity of pitchblende was due to the presence of radioactive elements.
In her fascinating and beautifully written biography, Marie Curie, Susan Quinn uses letters and journals that have only recently become available to strip away the myths that surround the Polish-French chemist.
Curie was profoundly wounded by many events in her life, including her rejection by the French Academy of Sciences and her public exposure and vilification over her affair with the physicist Paul Langevin. But the event which left the deepest scar on Curie was the premature death of her husband and scientific collaborator Pierre, crushed under the wheels of a horse-drawn wagon while crossing a Paris street. If proof were ever needed of the desolate and vulnerable woman beneath the impassive public facade, it can be found in the achingly sad love letters she continued to write to her beloved Pierre long after his tragic death.
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