Many honors and reputations of Marie Curie seem to have nothing to do with this great woman. She still works with enthusiasm and tenacity under extremely hard working conditions. This great woman has contributed her dreams to all mankind, and has also injected nobility and selflessness into her life. Her selfless work is not for honor, merit and benefit, but for her own soul.

Madame Curie's reputation spread from the moment she discovered radium, and the portrayal of her life was never as true as Einstein said-"When a noble figure like Madame Curie ended her life, we should not just be satisfied with recalling the contribution her work made to mankind. The significance of first-class figures to the times and historical process may be more their moral quality than their pure intellectual achievements. Even the latter, they depend on the degree of personality, and far exceed what is usually thought.

I. Scientific professionalism

1895 When Madame Curie and pierre curie got married, there were only two chairs in the new house, one for each person. Pierre curie felt that there were too few chairs, so he suggested adding more chairs in case the guests had nowhere to sit. Madame Curie said, "It's good to have a chair, but the guests won't leave once they sit down. In order to have more time to do research, forget it. "

Since 1953, Madame Curie's annual salary has increased to 40,000 francs, but she is still very stingy. Every time she comes back from abroad, she always brings back some party menus, because these menus are very thick and good pieces of paper, which are easy to write on the back. No wonder some people say that Madame Curie was "like a poor woman in a hurry" until her death.

Once, an American journalist went to visit Madame Curie. He went to the door of a fisherman's house in the village and asked a woman sitting barefoot on the slate at the door about Madame Curie's residence. The woman looked up and the reporter was surprised: it turned out that she was Madame Curie.

Second, indifferent to fame and fortune.

Madame Curie is famous all over the world, but she seeks neither fame nor profit. She won the 10 prize, 16 medal and 1 17 honorary title all her life, but she didn't care at all. One day, a friend of hers visited her home and suddenly saw her little daughter playing with the gold medal just awarded to her by the Royal Society, so she was pleasantly surprised and said, "Madame Curie, it is a great honor to receive the medal awarded by the Royal Society. How can you play for her children? " Madame Curie said with a smile: "I want children to know from an early age that honor, like a toy, can only be played, and must not be taken too seriously, otherwise nothing will be achieved."

The most commendable thing is that after the successful extraction of radium, they were suggested to apply to the government for a patent right to monopolize the manufacture of radium in order to make a fortune. Madame Curie said, "That is against the scientific spirit. Scientists' research results should be published publicly, and others should develop them without any restrictions. "

Third, selfless dedication. After the outbreak of World War II, Madame Curie resolutely closed the door of the laboratory and devoted herself to the torrent of war with the sincerity of a female scientist. She traveled to the field hospitals in France and found that all the field hospitals lacked X-ray equipment at that time, so she created X-ray equipment. And set up 200 X-ray studios on the battlefield. She braved the bullets and risked her life to run back and forth on the front line, not only as a tutor, but also often taking pictures of herself, and then the surgeon took out the bullets according to the parts marked in the photos. Sometimes, Madame Curie helps doctors operate under X-rays. For the service of X-ray equipment, she risked her life on the battlefield and was injured many times. According to statistics, X-rays have saved millions of patients. After the war, she not only never mentioned these glorious experiences, never mentioned the difficulties and obstacles she suffered, but also actively responded to the government's call and dedicated all her gold to the country. "... the war ended, but it disturbed her scientific work, exhausted her health and made her bankrupt ..."; "... when she was fifty years old, she almost became poor again ..."

"For 35 years, Madame Curie has been exposed to radium and breathed laser gas. During the four-year war, she also received more dangerous rays of Roentgen X-rays. " In her later years, she has been suffering from severe anemia. She endured the fear of blindness and still stubbornly carried out scientific research. He finally died on July 4, 1934 at the age of 67. The "radium" she discovered saved countless lives, and it continues to save countless lives now, but she has become a victim of "radium". Madame Curie devoted her life to the great cause of science. Like a fire, she gave every part of her light and heat to the world, but didn't care about herself.

Fourth, "teach women well"

Madame Curie has two daughters. Grasping the age advantage of intellectual development is an important "trick" for Madame Curie to develop children's intelligence. As early as when her daughter was less than one year old, Madame Curie instructed her children to carry out intellectual gymnastics training for children, guided them to get in touch with strangers extensively, went to the zoo to see animals, and let them learn to swim and enjoy the beautiful scenery of nature. When the children are older, she teaches them to do an artistic intellectual gymnastics, sing children's songs and tell fairy tales. When they are older, let them have intellectual training, teach them to read, play the piano, make handicrafts and so on, and teach them to ride bicycles and horses.

On July 1937, Madame Curie died of illness. She eventually died of pernicious anemia. She created and developed radiation science all her life, studied strongly radioactive materials fearlessly for a long time, and finally contributed her life to this science. During her lifetime, she won 10 famous awards including the Nobel Prize, and 16 medals awarded by international advanced academic institutions. Governments and scientific research institutions around the world have awarded more than 100 titles. But she is as modest and prudent as ever. Einstein, a great scientist, commented: "Among all the celebrities I know, Madame Curie is the only one who is not turned upside down by fame and fortune."

Madame Curie, as we all know, is a world-famous scientist and a foreign scientist I admire most.

Everyone knows that Madame Curie discovered radium, but she only had three grams of radium in her life, which is unimaginable to the world. She can apply for a patent, she can produce and create radium without restriction, and win wealth by radium. But Madame Curie didn't. She is not a greedy person. Even with such a large fortune, she chose to "turn a blind eye". This is a noble quality that we modern people can hardly possess.

The last paragraph of Marie Curie's article "My Faith" says: "I have been immersed in the beauty of the world, and the science I love is constantly increasing its brand-new prospects. I believe that science itself has great beauty. A scientist engaged in research work is both a technician and a child, as if fascinated by fairy tales and natural scenery. The charm of this science is the main reason why I can work hard in the laboratory all my life. Perhaps there is a reason why she devoted herself to science without coveting small profits ~!

This is the scientist I admire most-Madame Marie Curie.