By Eva Hemmungs Wirtén
In lots of methods, Marie Curie represents smooth technological know-how. Her enormous lifetime achievements—the first lady to be provided a Nobel Prize, the single girl to be provided the Prize in fields, and the one individual to be provided Nobel Prizes in a number of sciences—are studied through schoolchildren internationally. while, in 2009, the hot Scientist conducted a ballot for the “Most Inspirational girl Scientist of All Time,” the outcome used to be a foregone end: Marie Curie trounced her closest runner-up, Rosalind Franklin, profitable double the variety of Franklin’s votes. She is a job version to ladies embarking on a profession in technological know-how, the delight of 2 nations—Poland and France—and, now not least of all, a eu Union model for excellence in science.
Making Marie Curie explores what went into the construction of this icon of technological know-how. it's not a conventional biography, or one who makes an attempt to discover the “real” Marie Curie. relatively, Eva Hemmungs Wirtén, by way of tracing a profession that spans centuries and a global battle, offers an leading edge and traditionally grounded account of ways smooth technology emerges in tandem with superstar tradition below the effect of highbrow estate in a dawning age of data. She explores the emergence of the Curie character, the knowledge tradition of the interval that formed its improvement, and the concepts Curie used to control and make the most her highbrow estate. How did one create and hold for oneself the character of scientist at the start of the 20th century? What detailed stipulations bore upon medical ladies, and on married girls specifically? How was once French identification claimed, proven, and subverted? How, and with what outcomes, used to be a systematic popularity secured?
In its exploration of those questions and plenty of extra, Making Marie Curie offers a composite photograph not just of the making of Marie Curie, however the making of contemporary technology itself.
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We even went to church camps. I believe Mom was a devout Christian. She and I went every Monday night to Bible study with a converted Jew who had gone blind studying the Bible. His own family had his funeral when he converted. His name was Brother Joseph, and his Bible study was so in-depth I was mesmerized. This man loved the Lord! His love was so beautiful, and his spiritual knowledge was so awesome. I saved my money one summer and bought him the New Testament on records. I was given a great understanding for someone so young.
They didn’t take into consideration that he was also short — less than six feet tall. Someone six foot three, like me, with a much bigger bone structure and frame, shouldn’t be starved down to that size and still be expected to perform at full strength, but that was ou’s philosophical mind-set then. This is the same system that had produced Jim Weatherall, an All-American tackle and pro football defensive tackle who weighed over 270, yet somehow, with the influence of people like Roberts, they had bought into a “small and quick” concept and tried making all of us fit their concept instead of taking full advantage of our individual skills, including strength and size.
If I came back still in a bad mood, I had to run it again. Some days Mom would take me to school on her way to work, but mostly I walked or rode my bicycle through my grade school and even junior high days. In high school, riding a bicycle to school wasn’t cool, so I walked. This was another example of the insecurity that exists when we gain our self-esteem from our peers instead of from our Lord. Sometimes my mother took me to school when I was in high school. We would pull up to the front entrance, where all “the boys” — the top athletes and school leaders — would congregate.