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Post by swamprat on May 7, 2017 17:05:01 GMT -6
Hard to imagine a picture with all of them together. The off the record conversations behind those doors were probably amazing & should have been on the record. — Source: Princeton University
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Post by swamprat on May 7, 2017 20:28:01 GMT -6
...and now, the SHADY part of the story the story!
Closed-door conversations?? Ha! That’s not even the half of it. Only one woman in this picture. She has TWO Nobel Prizes…in two different fields no less. Marie Curie's husband Pierre, also a great scientist, was killed instantly when a horse-drawn carriage crushed his skull. Within 4 years after Pierre’s death, Marie would begin an affair with Paul Langevin….a great physicist in his own right. Problem was, Paul was married! Paul’s wife, unlike Einstein’s second wife, did not sit idly by and ignore her husband’s indiscretions. It’s a crazy story!:
Langevin was a married man and the father of four children. Langevin's wife discovered the love letters that Marie had written to him and dished the dirt to the Parisian equivalent of the News of the World. According to Susan Quinn's recently published biography Marie Curie: A Life, rumours of an affair had already been circulating.
Publication of the letters scandalised France. It was clearly not just a physical infatuation. Marie was thinking in terms of marriage and had written to her lover urging him to divorce his wife and marry her, although that would scarcely have been any less shocking at the time. Moreover, Paul Langevin had clearly not completely given up on his own marriage: his wife bore their fourth child just before he embarked on the affair with Marie.
After the news broke, the Swedish Academy of Sciences tried to dissuade her from coming to Stockholm to receive her Nobel prize so that the adulteress should not shake hands with the Swedish king. Paul Langevin felt honour-bound to fight a duel against the journalist who wrote the expose. He arranged a legal separation from his wife, but despite Marie's urgings, refused to seek a divorce. Her reputation was not completely restored until her heroic efforts to help wounded French soldiers during the First World War.
Is there a connection between the energy and drive these people brought to their scientific practice and the power of their emotional lives?
Marie Curie was in no doubt about it. When Svante Arrhenius, a member of the Swedish Academy of Sciences, wrote to her after the story of her love affair broke, she responded briskly: "The prize has been awarded for the discovery of radium and polonium. I believe that there is no connection between my scientific work and the facts of private life. I cannot accept ... that the appreciation of the value of scientific work should be influenced by libel and slander concerning private life."
Additionally, Genius, James Glieck's recent masterly biography of Richard Feynman, revealed the world's greatest post-war theoretical physicist was a notorious philanderer. He slept with many of his colleagues' wives, was a regular visitor to strip clubs, and on one occasion appears to have financed his mistress's illegal abortion (although the details are inevitably murky). Even Einstein, that icon of the ethereal scientist, had an enthusiastically earthy side when it came to women. Read more: www.independent.co.uk/news/science/the-secret-sex-life-of-marie-curie-1586244.html
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Post by skywalker on May 7, 2017 21:25:00 GMT -6
So you're saying all us smart people should be perverts, huh? I'll see what I can do...
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Post by swamprat on May 8, 2017 7:15:49 GMT -6
Einstein felt sorry for Marie.....
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Post by jcurio on May 8, 2017 9:29:12 GMT -6
Love the reference of "reptile"! LOL
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