Curie & Langevin affair

The Langevin Affair

[***] // In 1903, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded Pierre Curie, Marie Curie and Henri Becquerel the Nobel Prize in Physics, “in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel.” […] Eight years later, [Marie Curie] would receive the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry […] A month after accepting her 1911 Nobel Prize, she was hospitalized with depression and a kidney ailment. Skłodowska–Curie was the first person to win or share two Nobel Prizes. [***]/.../

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Read the “Don’t Let the Bastards Get You Down” Letter That Albert Einstein Sent to Marie Curie During a Time of Personal Crisis (1911)

in Chemistry, Letters, Physics | December 18th, 2017 1 Comment