The composition of the shabby house where Madame Curie worked.

Colorful-the story of studying hard-the story of Madame Curie

Cancer, a monster that devours human life, once ran wildly in the long river of human history, leaving people with pain and death like war criminals. People are always looking for weapons to fight it. However, century after century passed, until the early 20th century, the great Polish scientist Mary Curie-Sklodowska and her husband pierre curie discovered a new radioactive element-radium. It can destroy cells eroded by viruses and then form new healthy cell tissues. In this way, radium has become a powerful weapon to treat cancer.

My friend, if you are troubled by illness for a long time, even facing the danger of death, you should thank Madame Curie for her radiotherapy, then you should learn from her selfless spirit and unyielding fighting spirit with practical actions; If you are a soldier in white, and you are interested in conquering the stubborn fortress of cancer, then you will get great inspiration and lessons by tracing the path taken by Madame Curie in her life. If you are a scientific and technological worker and are determined to contribute everything to the realization of the four modernizations by the end of this century, then from Madame Curie, you will see how people who are determined to climb the peak of science should struggle and live. ...

Supreme principle

1877 Poland is still a broken country. It was occupied by tsarist Russia, Austria and Prussia. Born in oppression and raised under the iron hoof, little Mary is puzzled by all this happening in the world: why are Polish children not allowed to learn Polish? Why are Polish children not allowed to read Polish books? Why do Polish children study under the supervision of Russian inspectors? On the way home from school, Mary asked her little friend, "What does the czar want us to do in Poland? Is he not rich enough? His land is so big. " Teachers know children's hearts best. In the absence of the Russian Commissioner, he secretly taught the Polish people the history of resisting invaders. Secret teaching of Polish culture and language; Secretly cultivate children's feelings of loving the motherland. When little Mary came home, her father and brother secretly told her that "oppression will lead to resistance" and that "knowledge is power", which aroused her strong desire to pursue knowledge and improve her academic performance. From then on, little Mary buried her love for the motherland and hatred for the invaders in her heart. Although she is only ten years old and doesn't know how to resist the invaders, her unyielding character burns in her young mind; The idea of studying for the liberation of the motherland stirred in her heart.

Thanks to her hard work and excellent grades, Mary successfully moved from primary school to middle school and graduated from middle school with a gold medal. How much she wants to continue her studies and further her studies! However, in Poland with colonial and feudal shackles, universities do not accept girls. She dreams of going to Paris to study physics and chemistry. However, the poor Sklodowski family can hardly make ends meet. How can they afford to study abroad? Besides, my sister has graduated from high school for three years and once dreamed of going to Paris to study medicine.

Every time it goes up in smoke. The strong thirst for knowledge did not discourage the two sisters, but rather pushed forward the established goals more tenaciously. Mary and her sister went to tutor separately, saving up the cost of studying in Paris bit by bit.

One spring morning, Mary told her sister pleasantly that she had a good idea to study in Paris: "Well, you can take all the money we have saved and go to Paris first. I will still stay here as a tutor and send you all the money I earn. When you become a doctor, you will try to take me to Paris to study physics and chemistry. " What a great sacrifice! What a good way! Mary's words made her sister shed tears of gratitude. Since then, Mary has been more frugal, sending the money she earned to her sister in Paris every month. She would rather be so poor that she doesn't even have pocket money around her, and she can't even afford to buy stamps for writing letters. A poor life can't affect Mary's enthusiasm for studying hard. In order to learn more, she got into the habit of getting up before six o'clock every morning and often taught herself until late at night. Not only did she study hard by herself, but she also went to the Polish countryside to impart scientific knowledge to children and spread Polish culture among factory women workers. These may be discovered by spies and taken away by Russian inspectors at any time. However, Mary has only one idea in her heart: to serve the oppressed motherland and study for the liberation of the motherland. As she said in her letter to her childhood friend, "I have tried my best to cope with all this and make persistent efforts ... I have an overriding principle: never give in to people and things!" ……"

Aim at the top

Where there is a will, there is a way. After five years of hard work, Mary opened up the road to the ideal realm with her stubborn hands. My sister got her doctorate, and she embarked on a new journey.

Mary came to study at the Sorbonne in Paris, wearing faded silk clothes; Living in an indescribable shack; When I run out of money, I often use bread and tea to satisfy my hunger. The university library is like a magic magnet, which attracts Mary tightly. Mary is like a greedy sponge, sucking the milk of knowledge desperately. Once, she was studying at her desk in the library and suddenly fainted to the ground. Some students called a doctor to examine her. It turns out that Mary forgot to eat. Forgetting to eat has become a common thing for Mary. Her brother-in-law and sister often worry about it, and Mary often laughs at this forgotten thing. Whenever the library closes at ten o'clock at night, Mary leaves with pity, goes back to her hut and continues to study hard under the kerosene lamp until two o'clock in the middle of the night. When she was lying in bed, she was so cold that she had to get up, put on all her clothes one by one, and then lie down. When I got up in the morning, the water in the washbasin turned into ice, even the water in the kettle turned into ice. Hard life and hard study made the young girl pale and haggard. However, Mary, who is climbing to the top of science, is as red as the snow lotus on the iceberg and radiates gorgeous brilliance. In the degree examination of Solburn College, Mary won the first place in physics with excellent results. Since then, Mary's research has expanded to many aspects. In the experiment of studying metal magnetism, Mary met at the meeting of the Physical Society.

Pierre curie, an outstanding physicist. Get to know each other on the rugged road and form partners in the process of climbing the peak of science. From then on, Marie and Curie became inseparable names.

Physicist Henry Becquerel discovered that uranium salts emit invisible rays. At that time, the source of this mysterious ray was still a difficult problem for scientists to find the answer. It was from solving this difficult problem that the Curies began their common life and battle. After repeated research and experiments, they finally found radioactive elements-"polonium" and "radium" from pitchblende. After Henry Bockeler was captured, the Curies did not stop, but continued to advance to the brilliant peak! At that time, all chemists and physicists in Jiping held a wait-and-see attitude towards the discovery of radium. Therefore, the Curies set themselves a new task: they made up their minds to take out "a considerable amount" of radium from pitchblende and produce "real evidence" to prove the existence of this "mysterious" ray.

Without money to buy pitchblende for experiments, they used the residue of pitchblende for experiments. Without a laboratory, they borrowed a simple wooden house at school to do experiments. Thus began the war between the two scientists and nature. It is an arduous physical labor to heat a large amount of slag in a vat filled with slag and stir it for several hours at a time. The pungent steam from the hut is suffocating. It is in this harsh condition that the Curies worked tirelessly to extract radium. In order to make experiments uninterrupted, they often stay here, do experiments and cook a simple meal to satisfy their hunger. Day after day, year after year, four years have passed. Despite the hardships of the Curies, the experiment of analyzing radium was still unsuccessful.

Unsanitary working environment jeanpierre Curie suffered from limb pain. Mary's burden is heavier. She needs to heat and stir a lot of slag and pour the juice out of the vat, such as distillation and crystallization. The heavy chemotherapy work paralyzed Mary. Every night, after taking care of the children, she begins to write their papers, sometimes staying in the laboratory for a whole year. The young couple have never been to a theater, a concert or even visited their friends. However, in just one year, the Curies wrote three scientific papers that shocked the world. As Marie Curie later said when reviewing this arduous journey, "... the years spent in this simple wooden house were the most valuable and happiest, and they were completely devoted to our work."

1902 On a snowy night in the middle of winter, Mr. and Mrs. Curie walked side by side, arm in arm, facing the lights and stepping through thick snow, and habitually walked to their laboratory. When Dampier Curie lit a match to open the door, Marie Curie stopped him and said, "Don't light it." They walked into the hut in the dark and were stunned at once. This simple wooden house has become a magical palace: from bottles, cans, barrels, especially from the glass tube containing experiments, it emits crystal blue light.

Fierce invisible rays, look! The mysterious ray has been exposed! The radium they thought about day and night was born! However, who would have thought that the first gram of radium in the world was extracted from eight tons of bituminous uranium slag by the Curie couple after four years' efforts? It is like a bright pearl embedded in the top of science, which was picked by the Curie couple who are not afraid of hardships! The birth of this gram of radium contains the lessons of how many times the Curie couple failed and the joy of how many times they won! As for how much labor they have.

Sweat and brain power are immeasurable, but from the letter that Madame Curie wrote to her brother when she was a student, we can see the success of this great cause:

"People should have patience, especially confidence", "I should believe that I have a special talent for a certain cause and should complete it at any cost."

Despise utility

The Curie couple discovered the great achievements of radium and the honor of winning the Nobel Prize, which caused a sensation all over the world like spring thunder. Sincere invitations from foreign scientific circles and warm congratulatory letters from all over the world flew like snowflakes; There is a constant stream of respected tourists; People you don't know, ask them to sign as a souvenir; Photographers come to take pictures; The reporter came to interview ... when Marie Curie was still an unknown poor student, hunger, cold, poverty and cold eyes surrounded her and harassed her. She did all this.

Zheng Zheng replied: Never give in! Study hard! Today, when a glittering gold medal worth millions of francs smiled at her; When success, honor and congratulations flooded in, the Curies showed their noble qualities with firm actions. Don't brag, be modest and forget yourself!

Once, a newspaper reporter came to interview the scientist and wanted to report her story. She replied firmly: "What matters in science is what has been studied, not the individual of the researcher."

Some friends suggested that they apply for a patent right for the production of radium, and radium was developed. Marie Curie made this decision on behalf of her husband: "This should not be done. This is against the scientific spirit. Scientists' research results should be published without any restrictions. If our discovery can make a profit, it is only an accident, and there should be no priority in it. More importantly, radium is good for patients ... in my opinion, we should not profit from it. "They put this

This great discovery is widely used in industry and medicine, without seeking any personal gain. For Madame Curie, who has always been poor, the huge Nobel Prize is not rare, but a lot of prizes are given to Polish college students, poor girlfriends, laboratory assistants, female students who have no money, teachers who have taught her and relatives who have helped her.

The University of Geneva in Switzerland publicly offered them generous treatment and invited them to give lectures at the university. As ordinary middle school teachers, the Curies thought that although it was good for them, it would affect or even interrupt their research work, so they declined and still conducted experiments in their dilapidated wooden houses. After pierre curie's death, Madame Curie donated the results of their joint research-radium with a value of/kloc-0.00 million francs-to a cancer research laboratory. She said: "As long as the disease can be cured, even as long as the patient can relieve some pain, then our work will not be in vain." Many friends blamed her for not leaving this property to her children. Madame Curie has her own opinion. She said, "Poverty is not pleasant", but "being rich is unnecessary and even annoying." She asked her children to explore their own life path with hard-working hands. What she left to the children was the spirit of independence and the noble character of despising utility.

The famous scholar Einstein once commented on Madame Curie: "Among all the celebrities I know, Madame Curie is the only one who is not reversed by fame."

Die a glorious death

19 14 years, the first world war broke out. When the German invading army approached Paris, Madame Curie resolutely embarked on the battlefield of the anti-aggression war. She tried to serve the wounded with her scientific knowledge. for

In order to find out the position of bullets and shells on the injured quickly, operate on the injured in time and relieve their pain and death, Madame Curie studied the use of the engine in the car to generate electricity and installed a set of X-ray equipment in the car. This mobile X-ray car is affectionately called "Little Curie" by the soldiers. One morning, Madame Curie's car "Little Curie" suddenly had an accident and fell into a ditch by the side of the road. Madame Curie was black and blue, fainted, frightened the young driver and said to try again.

I dare not drive. Madame Curie began to study driving skills hard during the war. A few weeks later, she became a qualified driver again. From then on, Madame Curie herself drove tirelessly from one clinic to another. As soon as she got off the bus, she threw herself into the fierce battle between perspective and photography. ...

If Madame Curie's heroic dedication is epic in this battlefield with heavy gunfire, then her heroic dedication is in that silent laboratory. More awe-inspiring. After the discovery of radium, Madame Curie became an authority on X-rays and began to refine the radioactive element "actinium". For decades, Madame Curie was often attacked by radioactive elements because of her long-term research on radioactive substances, harsh experimental environment and lax protection of her body, which gradually destroyed her blood. She suffers from lung disease, eye disease, gallbladder disease, kidney disease and even insanity. However, in Madame Curie's view, scientific research is more important than her own health. In order to attend the World Physics Congress, she asked the doctor to postpone the kidney operation. She returned to China to attend the opening ceremony of the Radium Institute. She once endured the fear of blindness and stubbornly carried out scientific research. Until the last breath of her life, she was lying in bed with pernicious anemia and high fever. She still asked her daughter to report to her about the work in the laboratory and proofread the book Radioactivity for her. Madame Curie devoted her life to the great cause of science.

1On July 4th, 934, Madame Curie, the pioneer of the atomic age and the "mother" of radium, passed away. However, her supreme principle of never giving in, her ambition to reach the top, her noble moral character of despising utility and her heroic dedication will always be engraved in people's hearts, inspiring people to move forward towards new goals!