sanny (terminalblock) wrote, @ 2009-07-17 15:10:00

Mary was born in Warsaw
The last result may be only a stain
In 1867, Mary was born in Warsaw, capital of Poland. Her father is mathematics of the middle school and physical teacher, mother has acted as the primary school
Headmaster. Mary has liked science since childhood, physical instrument, mineral sample put in father's room,etc., have drawn her interest.
1890 year, Mary money that area save, come France alone, enter college of science of Paris University study.
In 4 years studying in Paris, Mary is by not living a kind of poor but noble life with the willpower sounding, have overcome ordinary person's difficulty difficult to imagine. In long winter, Mary living in the attic of top floor is unable to fall asleep because of being cold, it is needled through body that she takes out all clothes from the case or cover on the quilt, she even draws the chair to press to get warm on the quilt sometimes. The pursuit with no limits to scientific knowledge, it is materialist in a difficult position to make her forget, she seems to be driven by a kind of magical strength, roams in the scientific ocean, untiring, will never rest. In order to realize one's own aspiration, she gives up the general young woman's happy enjoyment, live the uninteresting life of shutting off oneself from society, only study hovering in her head and working. She, to expecting very all the time much one's own, she is unsatisfied with a physics master's degree, she will try to obtain the mathematics master's degree, she will be urging on oneself on the road of scientific research courageously forward constantly. Just making her show one's promises in the scientific field gradually according to this kind of firm and indomitable, forever aggressive dogged spirit, and become a dazzling star finally.
In 1895, Mary married Curie. Later, people begin to call Mary Mrs. Curie. Later, they had found and drawn radioactive element radium for the first time in the world.
Mrs. Curie is that a condition of work is more arduous, the apparatus is quite simple and crude. During the process of drawing and looking for the radium, Mrs. Curie is often in her " laboratory " In moving bag bitumen slay,it have they poured on mouthfuls of iron pans old, stir with the thick rod.
Because Curie Mrs. it infers to be but unable to prove new element radium in theory just, so the board of directors of Paris University refuses to offer the laboratory, experimental facilities and staff that she needs to her, she can only carry on the experiment in a ventilative large shabby shed that leak of four sides that nobody uses in the school. She has worked for 4 years, it was the job of the clumsy chemical plant that did in initial two years, the constant one is dissolved and is separated, the end left is radium. Through more than 1,000 jobs hard on day and night, 8 tons of slay like hill only have a little liquid in small wares left finally, crossing for a moment becomes one and small pieces of crystal of crystallization, that is new element radium!
When it is pleasant to the eye towards that small glass ware that she restrains the fierce heart that beats hopefully, she sees the sweat and the bitumen slay last results of 8 tons of 4 years are only a stain! Change others, can very angry perhaps, heavy to go off, break into pieces the small ware together with those group stain of inside! But Mrs. Curie does not have, fortunately not have.
Mrs. Curie came back home tiredly, she lay in bed in the evening, missing the stain of that group, want to find out the reason to fail: "If I know why fail, I would not take notice of very much failing. Why be only one stain, one small yuans of pale or colourless crystal? That is radium that we want. " As if Mrs. Curie as if saying to Curie to oneself again. Suddenly, he got an idea: Perhaps radium is like that, it is not a ball of crystal like that as what was predicted. They stand up and go to the laboratory, has not waited for opening yet, Mrs. Curie saw her great " finds " from the crack : That unattractive group's stain, emit the dazzling brilliant rays at night at this moment in the ware. This is radium - -One kind has extremely strong and radioactive new element found!

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