Citizens' Campus: Marie Curie - her life in diaries and letters

At the beginning of the 20th century, Polish scientist Marie Curie and her husband Pierre succeeded in eliminating one gram of radium from three tons of pitchstone, which was not the only reason for her worldwide fame. Born in Warsaw in 1867, she was able to read at the age of four. She passed her A-levels with flying colors, but as a woman she was denied the opportunity to study in Russian-occupied Poland. She worked as a governess to finance her sister's medical studies in Paris. When she settled down as a doctor at the end of her studies, Marie took her in and, after studying physics and chemistry at the Sorbonne, she continued her hardship-filled path, which ultimately brought her the fame and honor she had never valued.

The chemist is shown as a human being and illustrates what a role model still means today. Extensive research, including in Warsaw, and the author's experience as a chemist guarantee professional accuracy.

The speaker, Dr. Christina Seidel, herself a doctor of chemistry, is a professional and kindred spirit of the revered scientist, who set out to write a different kind of biography, a fictional diary that depicts the straightforwardness as well as the surprises caused by strokes of fate in her private life. The result is a sensitive book that describes how a person who does his work in a human way grows.

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