How the Genius of Marie Curie Killed Her

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5:02 Pierre and Marie Curie at work in their laboratory. Wellcome Collection.
5:25 The laboratories of Marie and Pierre Curie, Paris: exterior courtyard where treatment of noxious gases took place. Photograph, ca. 1900. Wellcome Collection. Public domain.
9:56 Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
11:54 Daily Herald Archive at National Science and Media Museum Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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[gillbates]

Imagine denying education, job and give basic human rights to some just because "she is a woman" and that woman goes on to be one of the greatest genius and winning two noble prizes. What a QUEEN.

[nanayeboah]

"Even her papers are still radio active" this shows she lives on till this day

[sinpfiec]

Shes just soo badass, overcoming the discrimination, getting over depression caused by society harassing her and also her amazing work that help many people until this day. I didn't even know such a legend lived, there might be a story like this untold and will remain unheard

[yokopaul-ishii]

I literally cried when I heard that the committee refused to give her the Nobel prize because she was a woman BUT there was a Swedish sympathisant of the committee who insisted to give her the Nobel prize and then it was possible that she wrote history to become the very first woman to receive the Nobel prize.
His decision and bravery to fight for justice, ethics, morality, humanity and gender equality changed the course of history.
He did because he had the power to change it.
The only way to achieve equality in gender or race is if the discriminating party would stop discriminating.
Sounds simple but it seems like an impossible fight since discrimination against women is the oldest discrimination in the history of mankind.

[yyg]

There are way too many female inventors who are forgotten. Thank god so many people know her because she is amazing. I find it so sweet that her daughter also won a nobel prize.

[IsMaski]

Einstein being the man he is, helped several people along. Such a humble soul.. Madam Curie story is truly inspiring. Her research in radium has saved countless lived today.

[thebluebeyond]

Albert Einstein's letter to her made me cry. I'm thankful such man existed in this world.

[akhil__dev]

Imagine if things like sexism, racism, and poverty never existed.
All the great minds in the world would have the opportunity to help the world.

[haysoe]

I swear Einstein is a time traveler. He’s here and there at the most climax parts and never the whole way, as if he knew what’s gonna happen.

[sahladedeche]

If a genius like Marie Curie (the first to win 2 Nobel prizes) was almost denied a Nobel prize because she was a *"woman"* I can imagine tens of women were *"actually"* denied the prize because of the same reason. and we don't know about them.

Really breaks my heart.

[jamestnov]

Madam Curie was a brilliant scientist and also a woman. Despite the obvious discrimination she succeeds.

[anitachandra]

Despite all the discrimination she faced due to her gender she still succeeded.

[no-delg]

There’s many forgotten scientist and inventors who we just left them undocumented and no not tesla alone there’s many others invisible

[anand]

Madam Curie and Tesla are my favorite scientists. They both were very selfless and dedicated to the science and humanity and way ahead of their time. They both suffered a lot and didn't cared about any money. True heroes.

[believer-qmhv]

The fact that her daughter also won the nobel prize, shows that she just wasn't a genius, she was a great mother as well

[ahmadshafiqzia]

Marie Curie be like: 'sometimes my genius, it's almost frightening'

[joannot]

Sexism really is a bane of scientific discovery.
Gender equality is a must have for a society to work optimally.

[MaximAmadi]

she was such a bad ass, proud to be Polish, we have very honourable people.

wish politics and governments never got in the way of research and science..

[RAZR_Channel]

10:35 - Declining the Medal of Honor : I see that as an artful return of the middle finger they had giver her all those years... Bravo Marie!