First, indomitable and indomitable personality. Madame Curie has such a famous saying: Believe that your talent is used to do something, no matter how expensive, you must do it. Madame Curie's childhood was unfortunate. Her mother and sister died before she reached 10. The hard living environment not only cultivated her ability to live independently, but also tempered her very strong character since she was a child. As early as when she was studying at the University of Paris in France, she lived a monastic life. "She deliberately excluded distractions from the schedule, did not attend friends' parties, and did not contact with others. Similarly, she came to the conclusion that material life is not important and that this kind of life does not exist. She gave herself a spartan inhuman life. "Because of poverty, she is often hungry and cold. She is anemic and often faints, but she despises the disease and continues to study hard ... One day, she and a classmate walked out of the classroom and suddenly fainted to the ground. The students present were shocked, so they quickly took her to a nearby hospital. Her brother-in-law is a doctor in the hospital. When he heard the news, the pale Madame Curie was already reading her lessons the next day. " He checked his aunt, especially the clean plates and empty saucepans, and found that there was only one kind of food in the whole house: a small packet of tea. He suddenly understood and began to ask: What did you eat today?

Today? ... I don't know ... I just had lunch. ...

What did you eat? Brother-in-law continued to ask.

Some cherries and many things. ...

Finally, she had to tell the truth. Since the night before, she has only eaten a handful of radishes and half a pound of cherries. She worked hard until three o'clock in the morning and slept for four hours ... She came home, ate the rest of the radish, and then fainted. "

In this way, the poor female student finally graduated from the physics department with the first place in the summer of 1893 with an unimaginable tenacity and obtained a master's degree in physics. The following summer, he graduated from the Department of Mathematics with the second place and obtained a master's degree in mathematics.

The content of "radium" element in uranium asphalt is only one ten thousandth. At that time, even with extremely sophisticated instruments, there was no way to find it through chemical analysis. It is conceivable that it is not easy to confirm, study and refine with extremely simple experimental equipment. However, once Madame Curie discovered its existence, she devoted herself to her own research with fire-like enthusiasm. Numerous difficulties have been encountered in the research work. The research laboratory is an abandoned shack. "... in summer, because the shack is glass, it is as hot as a greenhouse; In winter, I don't know whether it should snow or rain. If it rains, it will fall to the ground and make a dull and soft sound ... If it is first frost, even people are frozen and there is no way to remedy it. Even if the stove burned white, it was completely disappointing ... "But it was in such a harsh environment that Madame Curie and her husband had worked hard for four years. In four years, they extracted dozens of tons of coal cinder from uranium asphalt mine; For four years, she was a scholar, a worker and a technician, and worked hard every day. In the past four years, she has always shot tenacious eyes, never relaxing her own instruments or the crucible she used to do experiments. . . . . . It is precisely because of this indomitable character that they fought for their careers, from 1898 to 1902. After tens of thousands of failures and refinements, they finally got 0.l grams of "radium".

Second, the noble quality of fame and fortune. Einstein said: among all the celebrities, Madame Curie is the only one who is not overturned by fame and fortune. She is the "mother of radium". In some people's view, she should become rich because of radium. But she naturally despises wealth. She once told people calmly: "Radium" is an element from which no one should get rich. Radium belongs to the whole world. After the Curie couple discovered radium, in order to make it serve the world as soon as possible, they immediately disclosed the method of extracting radium and refused to apply for patent right. After her husband died in a car accident, Madame Curie donated radium worth one million francs to a cancer research laboratory. She said: "As long as the disease can be cured, even as long as the patient can relieve some pain, then our work will not be in vain."

1920 In May, an American female journalist visited Madame Curie and asked, "If you could choose everything in the world, what would you prefer?"

"I really want to have a gram of pure radium for research. But its price is too high, I really can't afford it. "

The female reporter asked inexplicably. "Didn't you send radium worth millions of francs to the laboratory of Paris University?"

Madame Curie said quietly. "No, that's not mine. It belongs to the laboratory. "

The selfless spirit of the female scientist who devoted herself to science deeply touched the reporter. After she returned to the United States, she wrote many articles, introduced the Curie couple, and called on the American people to carry out donation activities and donate one gram of "radium" to Madame Curie. In May of the following year, the President of the United States personally presented this gram of radium to Madame Curie in Washington .. Before the ceremony, Madame Curie insisted on revising the words on the certificate of presentation, and once again stated: "This gram of radium presented to me by the United States should always belong to science and cannot be my personal private property."

From here we can see the nobility of Madame Curie's soul. There is no selfish interest in her soul. This reminds me of a famous saying of Marx: If a person only works for himself, he may become a famous scholar, a talented person and an excellent poet, but he will never become a real great man and a perfect person. It is precisely because of the noble sentiment of seeking happiness for mankind and the noble quality of not caring about fame and fortune that Madame Curie became a great man admired all over the world.

Madame Curie despised honor all her life. She won 10 prize, 16 medal and 100 honorary titles all her life, but she never cared about these. She kept the honorary certificates only because they are hard and thick pieces of paper, and it is very convenient to record the arithmetic of mathematics and physics on the back. One day, a friend of hers went to her house and saw her little daughter playing with a gold medal awarded to her by the Royal Society. Her friend was surprised and asked, "Madame Curie, it is a great honor to receive the medal of the Royal Society now. How can I play for my 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." You can never keep it forever, or you will accomplish nothing. "

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.

There are many excellent qualities of Madame Curie, but these are only a small part of them.

When evaluating Madame Curie's life, Einstein said with excitement and respect:

When Madame Curie, a noble figure, ended her life, we were not only satisfied with recalling the contribution made by her work to mankind. Morally speaking, the significance of first-class figures to the times and historical process may be greater than simple intellectual achievements. Even the latter, they depend on the degree of personality, and far exceed what is usually thought.

..... I admire her great personality more and more. Her strength, her pure will, her self-discipline, her objectivity and her unfairness are all concentrated on her alone ... Once she realizes that a certain road is correct, she will go on with great tenacity without compromise.

..... The greatest scientific achievement in her life is not only achieved by her bold intuition, but also by her enthusiasm for working under unimaginable and extremely difficult circumstances. Such difficulties are rare in the history of science.

..... Even if only a small part of Madame Curie's moral strength and enthusiasm exists among European intellectuals, Europe will face a bright future.

Although Madame Curie said in science that "we should pay attention to things, not people", many of her excellent qualities, like her great scientific contributions, have to attract the attention of the world. Her brilliant quality will always be the pride of mankind, and will always inspire our latecomers to forge ahead towards lofty goals!

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