| 11-07 TABLE of CONTENTS:
Marie Sklodowska Curie, Physicist
DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
QUOTE by
Sigmund Freud.
The First Person to Win the Nobel Prize
Twice
Born Nov. 7, 1867, Marie
Sklodowska Curie, Polish-French physicist whose work with radium and other
materials made her the first person to win the Nobel prizes twice.
The mother of two daughters,
including Irene who also won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Mme. Curie was
the first female lecturer and professor at Sorbonne. She had degrees in
mathematics and physics. During World War I in France, with the assistance
of her daughter Irene, MC perfected the new medical diagnostic tool "X
radiography." She learned to drive a
car, acquainted herself with auto mechanics, and toured actual battlefields
to personally install mobile X-ray equipment that served as many as one
million soldiers.
Pierre Curie, Marie's
husband who shared the first of the two Nobel prizes won by Marie was offered
France's Legion of Honor, its highest honor for winning the Nobel. But
he refused it because it was not awarded jointly with his wife who was
instrumental in the discovery of radium. Pierre died in 1905. Marie won
her second Nobel in 1911.
In 1921, Marie Curie
was given a gram of radium valued at $250,000 by members of the American
Asociation of University Women (AAUW) who held a special fundraiser. Curie
was too poor to buy it herself even after winning TWO Nobel Prizes. France
NEVER paid her tribute even with a modern laboratory.
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11-07 DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
B. 11-07-1847, Lotta Crabtree, taught by the
legendary Lola Montez, she was the rage of the English and American
stage, leaving a fortune of $4 million.
B. 11-07-1878, Lise Meitner, Austrian physicist,
during her research in Germany and Austria with Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman
strange results with uranium led to the discovery of uranium fission in
1938. She then proved mathematically that atoms could be split - one of
the great scientific discoveries of the century - while she was fleeing
Nazi Germany and to settle in Sweden where she continued her research.
Her detailing of the
theory of splitting the uranium atom led to the A-bomb and is the basis
of atomic energy. Meitner is gradually being recognized as the true parent
of the atomic age. She was the first woman to receive the Ernrico Fermi
Award (1966). Oddly enough she worked for the Nobel Institute in Sweden
in her later years and never received full credit for her outstanding work.
B. 11-07-1893, Margaret Kernochan Leech, author
and historian, Pulitzer prize winner for Reveille in Washington,
1860-1865 (1941) and In the Days of McKinley (1959).
B. 11-07-1901, Cecilia Meireles, Brazilian
poet, teacher, and journalist. Known for
her lyrical poetry.
B. 11-07-1917, Helen Gavronsky Suzman, spoke
out against arpartheid when elected to the South African parliament
in 1953.
Event 11-07-1922, Grace F. Kaercher,
becomes the first woman in Minnesota history to be elected to a statewide
office, that of clerk of the state supreme court.
B. 11-07-1926, Joan Sutherland, Australian
opera singer considered to have one of
the greatest bel canto voices in herstory, best known for her remarkable
vocalizing in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor.
B. 11-07-1936, Audrey McLaughlin, named leader
of Canada's New Democratic Party in 1989,
Yukon representative to Canada's parliament.
B. 11-07-1937, Mary Travers, author, composer,
singer, of Peter, Paul, and Mary fame.
Event 11-07-1942, Dorothy Edith Lorne Tuttle,
enlisted as the first member of the Coast Guard Women's Reserve (SPARS).
B. 11-07-1943, Joni Mitchell, singer, composer.
Day After Day. Grammy award winner as best folk performer of 1970.
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QUOTES DU JOUR
FREUD, SIGMUND:
"Despite my 30 years
of research into the feminine soul, I have not yet been able to answer...
the great question that has never been answered: What does a woman want?"
--
Sigmund Freud; quoted by Dr. Ernest Jones, The Life and Works of Sigmund
Freud, Vol.2.
(Question: Did he EVER
ask that question of women who weren't already driven insane/mad/neurotic/psychotic
by the restrictions on their lives under the strict patriarchal society
of Freud's time?)
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