1. A tenacious personality with endless struggle. Marie Curie has this famous saying: We should believe that our talents are used to do something, no matter how high the cost, this kind of thing must be done. Marie Curie had an unfortunate childhood. Her mother and eldest sister died of illness when she was less than 10 years old. The difficult living environment not only cultivated her ability to live independently, but also helped her develop a very strong character from an early age. As early as when she was studying at the University of Paris in France, she lived a monastic life. "She deliberately removed distractions from her schedule, did not attend friends' gatherings, and did not have contact with others. She also concluded that material life was unimportant, She thought that this kind of life did not exist. She gave herself a Spartan and inhumane life. "Because of poverty, she often suffered from hunger and cold, and she often fainted due to anemia, but she despised the disease. , still studying hard... One day, when she and a classmate walked out of the classroom, she suddenly fainted and fell to the ground. The classmates present were shocked and rushed her to a nearby hospital. Her brother-in-law is a doctor in the hospital. When he came after hearing the news, the pale Madame Curie was already reading her homework for the next day. "He checked his aunt, especially the clean plates and empty pans, and found only one kind of food in the whole house: a small bag of tea. He suddenly understood and began to ask: What did you eat today?
Today? I don’t know...I just finished lunch...
What did you eat?
Some cherries. There was a lot of stuff...
Finally she had to tell the truth. Since the night before, she had only eaten a small handful of radishes and half a pound of cherries. She had worked hard until three in the morning and slept for four When she was young,...she returned home, ate the remaining radishes, and then passed out."
In this way, this poor female student finally succeeded with her unimaginable tenacity. In the summer of 1893, he graduated with first place in the physics department and received a master's degree in physics. The following summer, he graduated with second place in the Department of Mathematics and received a master's degree in mathematics.
The content of the element "Radium" in uranium pitch was only one ten thousandth. At that time, even with extremely sophisticated instruments, there was no way to chemically analyze it and find it. As you can imagine, it is not easy to confirm, study, and refine it with extremely crude experimental equipment. But once Madame Curie discovered its existence, she devoted herself to her research with fire-like enthusiasm. The difficulties encountered in research work are countless. The laboratory used for research is an abandoned shed. "...In summer, because the shed is made of glass, it is as hot inside as a greenhouse; in winter, I simply don’t know whether it should snow or rain. If it rains, it will fall drop by drop on the ground with an annoying soft sound... If it frosts, even people will freeze, and there is no way to remedy it. Even if the stove turns it Even if it burns white, it is completely disappointing..." But it was in such a harsh environment that Madame Curie and her husband conducted four years of arduous research work. For four years, they extracted dozens of tons of cinders from uranium pitch mines; for four years, she was a scholar, a worker, a technician, and a hard worker every day; for four years, she always had a stubborn look in her eyes and never relaxed. Her instruments never let go of the crucible for her experiments. . . . . . It is precisely because of this tenacious personality of constantly striving for the cause that they worked from 1898 to 1902. After tens of thousands of failures and refinements, they finally obtained 0.1 grams of "radium".
2. Noble quality that is not concerned with fame and fortune. Einstein said: Among all the famous figures, Madame Curie is the only one who is not obsessed with fame and fortune. She is the "mother of radium", and in some people's opinion she should have become extremely rich because of "radium". But her nature despises wealth. She once calmly said to people: "Radium" is an element. No one should become rich from "radium". "Radium" belongs to the whole world. After the Curies discovered "radium", in order to serve the world as quickly as possible, they immediately disclosed the method of extracting "radium" and refused to apply for a patent. After her husband died in a car accident, Madame Curie donated radium worth one million francs to a laboratory researching cancer treatment. She said: "As long as the disease can be cured, or even the patient can be relieved. Some pain, then our work will not be in vain. ”
In May 1920, an American female reporter asked Marie Curie: “If you could choose from all the things in the world, what would you most like to get?” ”
“I would really like to have a gram of pure radium for research. But its price is too high and I can't afford it. "
The female reporter asked in confusion. "Didn't you give radium worth one million francs to the University of Paris laboratory? "
Madame Curie said calmly. "No, that's not mine, it belongs to the laboratory. ”
This reporter was deeply moved by this female scientist’s selfless spirit in dedicating herself to science. When she returned to the United States, she wrote a large number of articles introducing the Curies and calling on the American people to launch a donation campaign. In May of the following year, the President of the United States personally presented the gram of "radium" to Madame Curie.
Before the donation ceremony, Marie Curie insisted on modifying the text on the donation certificate, stating again: "The gram of radium donated to me by the United States should always belong to science and cannot become my personal private property."
< p>From here we can see the nobility of Madame Curie’s soul. There is no trace of selfishness in her soul. This reminds me of Marx's famous saying: If a person works only for himself, he may become a famous scholar, an extremely smart person, and an excellent poet, but he will never become a truly great man or a perfect man. It is precisely because of her noble sentiments of seeking happiness for mankind and her noble character of not caring about fame and fortune that Madame Curie became a great person admired by the world.Mrs. Curie despised honor throughout her life. She received various bonuses 10 times, 16 medals, and more than 100 honorary titles throughout her life, but she never cared about these. She kept the certificates of honor simply because they were hard, thick pieces of paper, and it was very convenient to record math and physics arithmetic on the back. One day, a friend of hers came to her house as a guest and saw her little daughter playing with the gold medal awarded to her by the Royal Society. Her friend was shocked and asked: "Madame Curie, can you get a British medal now?" The medal of the Royal Society is a very high honor. How can you give it to your children?" Madame Curie smiled and said: "I want my children to know from an early age that honors are like toys, they can only be played with. You can’t keep it forever, otherwise you will achieve nothing.”
3. Selfless dedication. After the outbreak of World War II, Marie Curie resolutely closed the door of her laboratory and devoted herself to the torrent of war with the sincerity of a female scientist. She traveled to battlefield hospitals in France and found that all field hospitals at the time lacked X-ray equipment, so she created X-ray equipment. And 200 X-ray photography rooms were set up on the battlefield. She ran back and forth on the front lines under hail of bullets, risking her life. Not only did she act as a guide, she often took photos herself, and then the surgeon removed the bullet according to the location indicated by the photo. Sometimes, Marie Curie helped doctors perform operations under X-rays. In order to service X-ray equipment, she went through life and death on the battlefield and was injured several times. According to statistics, the number of injured and sick patients rescued by X-rays reaches one million. After the war, she not only never mentioned these glorious experiences, nor the hardships and dangers she had suffered, but she also actively responded to the government's call and dedicated all her gold to the country. "...the war was over, but it disrupted her scientific work, drained her health, and bankrupted her..."; "...at the age of fifty, she was almost poor again... ..."
"For 35 years, Madame Curie has been exposed to "radium" and breathed laser gas. During the four-year war, she was also exposed to more dangerous radiation from Roentgen X-rays. rays." In her later years, she suffered from severe anemia. She endured the fear of blindness and still carried out scientific research tenaciously. Finally passed away on July 4, 1934, at the age of 67. The "radium" she discovered saved countless lives, and is still saving countless lives, but she became a victim of "radium". Marie Curie devoted her life entirely to the great cause of science. She is more like a ball of fire, devoting every part of her light and heat to the world, but not caring about herself.
Marie Curie had many excellent qualities, and the above are just a few of them.
When evaluating the life of Madame Curie, Einstein once said with excitement and respect:
When such a noble figure as Madame Curie ended her life, we is not content merely to recall the contribution of her work to humanity. The significance of first-rate figures to the times and the course of history may be greater in terms of morality than mere intellectual achievements. Even the latter, they depend on character to a far greater extent than is usually supposed.
…I have grown to admire the greatness of her personality. Her strength, her purity of will, her strict self-discipline, her objectivity, her impartiality, all of these are rarely concentrated in her... Once she realizes that a certain path is correct, She walked on uncompromisingly and tenaciously.
…The greatest scientific achievements of her life were achieved not only by bold intuition, but also by a passion for working under unimaginably difficult circumstances. Such difficulties are rare in the history of science.
...If only a small part of Marie Curie's moral strength and enthusiasm existed among European intellectuals, Europe would face a bright future.
Although Marie Curie said: "In science, we should pay attention to things, not people." Her many excellent qualities, like her huge scientific contributions, have to attract the attention of the world.
Her shining quality will always be the pride of mankind and will always inspire us latecomers to strive towards lofty goals!