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Marie Curie's Nobels

Gigantic A-Hole GA at pecbell.com
Sat Aug 31 19:22:23 EST 2002


"Kenneth Collins" <k.p.collins at worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:<xeYb9.43920$Ke2.3090486 at bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>...
> Marie shared the Physics Nobel in 1903 with Henri Becquerel and her
> Husband Pierre. She won the Chemistry Nobel in 1911 [unshared]. Her
> daughter, Irene Joliot-Curie, shared the Chemistry prize in 1935.
> 
> Marie's relationship with Pierre was as beautiful as any relationship
> between a man and a woman that I've ever heard of - full of 'light',
> 'quiet' mutual-caring, and invigorating scientific-interest.
> 
> ken


Translation from feminese:  He did the work and let her take the
credit for it.

I actually don't know this for a fact, but it sounds likely and it
also sounds like what a woman's only conception of a "beautiful"
relationship would be.



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