Marie Curie died 90 years ago. Her thoughts in seven quotes

MADRID (EUROPA PRESS).- This July 4 marks the 90th anniversary of the death in 1934 of Marie Curie, a Polish scientist naturalized French, a pioneer in the field of radioactivity along with her husband, Pierre Curie.

Among other achievements, she was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize, the first person to receive two Nobel Prizes in different fields – Physics and Chemistry – and the first woman to hold the position of professor at the University of Paris.

Throughout his life, he left behind numerous reflections on his vision of the world. Here we have selected seven.

• Nothing in this world should be feared… only understood.
• We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.
• I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.
• I was taught that the path to progress was neither quick nor easy.
• Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
• You cannot hope to build a better world without improving individuals.
• I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

BORN IN WARSAW

Maria Salomea Sklodowska-Curie was born on 7 November 1867 in Warsaw, in what was then the Tsardom of Poland, administered by the Russian Empire. She studied clandestinely and began her scientific training in that city. In 1891, at the age of 24, she followed her older sister to Paris, where she completed her studies and carried out her most outstanding scientific work.

She shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband Pierre Curie and physicist Henri Becquerel. She won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Her achievements include the development of the theory of radioactivity (a term she herself coined), techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes, and the discovery of two elements: polonium and radium. Under her direction, the first studies on the treatment of neoplasia with radioactive isotopes were carried out.

She founded the Curie Institute in Paris and Warsaw, which remain among the leading medical research centres today. During the First World War she created the first radiological centres for military use.

He died of aplastic anemia caused by radiation exposure from keeping test tubes of radium in his pockets during research and construction of the mobile X-ray units of World War I.