On Marie Curie

摘要

Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first woman to receive a degree in physics from the Sorbonne. She was 36 years old, the mother of a young daughter, and had just completed her doctoral dissertation. All this was accomplished in an era when women were considered incapable of being productive scientists: neither their physical nor mental capacities were considered able to support this. Very few women pursued advanced degrees in any discipline. Women rarely had any life of their own beyond household duties and childrearing. Yet Marie Curie became an outstanding woman scientist. Author Barbara Goldsmith, with access to extensive archival material and conversations with Marie's daughter Eve Curie Labouisse and granddaughter Helene Langevin-Joliot, tells the story of this remarkable woman.