Marie Curie Was Born a Woman Dolores Garnica
Essayist and journalist. She has worked as a promoter, manager, and communicator. She is a columnist in ITESO’s Magis magazine, and a regular contributor to Luvina, a magazine of the University of Guadalajara. Her first book of essays, “A grey, almost green”, by Editorial Paraíso Perdido, was presented in 2017.
S ummary : Polonium, radium, mobile radiology, the isolation of radioactive isotopes, and the first medical treatments with radiation, among many other discoveries and inventions that transformed physics, chemistry, medicine forever: all this we owe to Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie, known to history as Marie Curie (Poland, 1867– France, 1934), the scientist whose legacy still moves through science like a female icebreaker.
Maria Salomea Skłodowska When a Russian inspector visited the school of the young Maria, in her native Warsaw, the twenty or so pupils concealed their notebooks and pulled out their embroidery. They did so because it was forbidden to study Polish history or literature, owing to the invasion by the Russian empire, but also because it was unseemly that girls should study at all. Thus did the little girl learn, as others like her, for hundreds of years, since the beginning of history ―with some few exceptions, such as Marie Curie herself― that certain interests and passions, such as study or even reading, could be practiced only in hiding. Maria Skłodowska and her sister spent their first years at the “Floating University” in Poland, a system of clandestine studies that required graduate to pay for their education by giving classes to the less fortunate. “I have behaved well. I almost never mention of subject of higher education for women. In general I observe the decorum in my conversation that would be expected of someone in my position,” she wrote to her sisters when she was working as a teacher to save money and continue her studies outside of Poland. It was not until 1891 that she was able to travel to Paris, a sort of utopia that also turned out to be an iceberg.
NOTHING IN LIFE IS TO BE FEARED, IT IS ONLY TO BE UNDERSTOOD Marie Curie
