Today I Found Out

Marie Curie's Affair... and the Duels That Followed (2017x166)

Air date: Jul 07, 2017

If you happen to like our videos and have a few bucks to spare to support our efforts, check out our →“in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel”. Their relationship was a happy one, with each of them being on an even intellectual footing with the other. They celebrated their Nobel Prize and continued their work. But after a few years, tragedy struck. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/09/marie-curie-once-had-two-duels-fought-over-her-after-an-affair-with-a-married-man/ Sources: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1903/marie-curie-bio.html http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2010/12/14/132031977/don-t-come-to-stockholm-madame-curie-s-nobel-scandal http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F30816FD355517738DDDAD0A94D9415B818DF1D3 http://www.aip.org/history/curie/brief/06_quotes/quotes_11.html http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/physics/brau/H182/HonorandDishonor.pdf http://www.aip.org/history/curie/scandal1.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haijby_affair Image Credit: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pierre_and_Marie_Curie.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pierre_Curie_(1859-1906)_and_Marie_Sklodowska_Curie_(1867-1934),_c._1903_(4405627519).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Marie_Curie.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albert_Einstein_Head_Cleaned_N_Cropped.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paul_Langevin,_french_physician,_Cambridge_(UK)_in_1897.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paul_Langevin_Wellcome.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marie_Curie_Tekniska_museet.jpg https://www.flickr.com/photos/atbaker/8459286843 Music from Jukedeck - create your own at http://jukedeck.com.