Story One: Simple Life

When Madame Curie and Pierre Curie got married in 1895, there were only two chairs in the new house, one for each of them. Pierre Curie felt that there were too few chairs and suggested adding a few more to avoid having no place to sit when guests came. However, Madame Curie said: "It is good to have chairs, but guests will not leave after they sit down. In order to have more If you have time to do research, forget it."

Since 1913, Madame Curie's annual salary has increased to 40,000 francs, but she is still "stingy". Every time she comes back from abroad, she always brings back some menus from the banquet, because these menus are made of very thick and fine paper, and it is very convenient to write on the back. No wonder some people said that Madame Curie was "like a poor woman in a hurry" until her death.

Once, an American reporter was looking for Madame Curie. He walked to the door of a fisherman's house in the village and asked a woman sitting barefoot on the stone slab at the door where Madame Curie lived. When the woman raised her head, the reporter was shocked: it turned out to be Marie Curie.

Story 2: Indifferent to fame and fortune

Madame Curie is famous all over the world, but she neither seeks fame nor fortune. She won 10 bonuses, 16 medals, and 107 honorary titles in her lifetime, but she didn't care at all. One day, a friend of hers came to her home and suddenly saw her little daughter playing with the gold medal that the Royal Society had just awarded her. He was surprised and said, "Mrs. Curie, she got a medal from the Royal Society." , is a very high honor, how can you give it to your children to play with?" 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, and they must not be taken too seriously. Otherwise, nothing will be accomplished."

Story 3: Teaching your daughter well

Madame Curie had two daughters. "Seizing the age advantage of intellectual development" is Marie Curie's important "know-how" for developing children's intelligence. As early as when her daughter was less than one year old, Madame Curie guided her children to engage in intellectual gymnastics training for young children, guide them to have extensive contact with strangers, go to the zoo to watch animals, let them learn to swim, and appreciate the beauty of nature. When the children are a little older, she teaches them a kind of artistic intellectual gymnastics, sings children's songs, and tells them fairy tales. When they get older, let the children undergo intellectual training, teach them to read, play the piano, do handicrafts, etc., and also teach them to ride bicycles and ride horses. After Madame Curie and her husband won the Nobel Prize, two pairs of descendants trained by Madame Curie also won the Nobel Prize: the eldest daughter Irene, a nuclear physicist, and she and her husband Joliot discovered that Artificial radioactive substances and jointly won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The second daughter, Eve, is a musician and biographer. Her husband won the 1956 Nobel Peace Prize as the Director-General of the United Nations Children's Fund.