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Fighting against discrimination - Maria Sklodowska Curie (1867-1 934 ). FIRST STEPS INTO THE DEEP SNOW. Story by Mimoza Ristova Physics Department University in Skopje Republic of Macedonia.
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Fighting against discrimination - Maria Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934) FIRST STEPS INTO THE DEEP SNOW Story by MimozaRistova Physics Department University in Skopje Republic of Macedonia Mimoza Ristova -Maria Curie-RAD-2012
Once upon a time, the world of science and art was inaccessible for women as nowadays the Vatican Conclave and the Athos of Greece remain closed for female human beings. Athos Vatican Mimoza Ristova -Maria Curie-RAD-2012
Let us not ever forget who made the first footsteps in to the deep masculine chauvinistic snow of science? Mimoza Ristova -Maria Curie-RAD-2012
What the scientific conferences looked like before the phenomenon Marie Sklodowska Curie appeared? Mimoza Ristova -Maria Curie-RAD-2012
Scientific conference in 1900 Mimoza Ristova -Maria Curie-RAD-2012
Solvay–scientific council 1911 Mimoza Ristova -Maria Curie-RAD-2012
Sоlvаy Conference -1913 Mimoza Ristova -Maria Curie-RAD-2012
Solvay Conference 1921 Mimoza Ristova -Maria Curie-RAD-2012
Sоlvаy Conference - 1933 Marie Irene Lise Meitner Mimoza Ristova -Maria Curie-RAD-2012
Solvay Conference -1947 Mimoza Ristova -Maria Curie-RAD-2012
Institute of Physics – Skopje -gender statistics Mimoza Ristova -Maria Curie-RAD-2012
HISTORICAL, POLITICAL AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS Mimoza Ristova -Maria Curie-RAD-2012
Life in Poland_______________________________ Russian occupation of Prussia Mimoza Ristova -Maria Curie-RAD-2012
Life in Poland_____________________________ 2000 1900 Mimoza Ristova -Maria Curie-RAD-2012
Russian occupation____________________________________________________ • From capital city 1815 Warsaw became a Russian provincial city under the rule of the Russian Tsar. • Polish language was forbidden for public use. • Sklodowski family was devoted to open patriotism and cultural preservation. Mimoza Ristova -Maria Curie-RAD-2012
Mania was born on November 7th1967 in Warsaw ____________________________________ Mimoza Ristova -Maria Curie-RAD-2012
The Sklodowski’s children _______________________________ Zosia, Maria (V child), Hela,Joseph, Bronia Mimoza Ristova -Maria Curie-RAD-2012
Education under nationalistic discrimination ______________________________________ Higher education in sciences forbidden for polish students in the Russian Empire!!!!! Russian TsarAlexanderIIwas killed 1881 by polish revolutionary students Kosak’s parade after 1863 after defeating the revolution Mimoza Ristova -Maria Curie-RAD-2012
Depression (mental depleation)____________________________________ Education was the driver in her life Life in the country – years of happiness recovering after 1 year Mimoza Ristova -Maria Curie-RAD-2012
Governance, tutor in the sugar factory and illegal student of practical chemistry_____________________________________________________________________ Mania & Bronia KazimirZorawski Mimoza Ristova -Maria Curie-RAD-2012
Illegal “flying”universities in Poland or evening schools with variable address____________________________________ Mimoza Ristova -Maria Curie-RAD-2012
1891 -1894Marie at Sorbonne____________________________ 1893 - Master degree in physics as a top student in the class and 1894 – master in maths Mimoza Ristova -Maria Curie-RAD-2012
To look for a job in Paris or to return back to Poland?____________________________ Facing difficulties in magnetic measurements, she was introduced to Pierre Curie Wedding 1895 Mimoza Ristova -Maria Curie-RAD-2012
Honey moon– tour de France____________________________ Wedding gift from Pierre Mimoza Ristova -Maria Curie-RAD-2012
1897 – continuation of Becquerel's findings Key to the success: Pierre and Jacque Curie’s upgraded electrometer Mimoza Ristova -Maria Curie-RAD-2012
Experiments with U-salts_______________________________ Becquerelshypotesis confirmed U-salts with a greater U-content show greater activity Mimoza Ristova -Maria Curie-RAD-2012
Is it only property of U?__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ • She tested all the known elements. • It was found that Th revealed the property. Mimoza Ristova -Maria Curie-RAD-2012
Doctoral degree for Pierre and Marie_________________________________________________________________ First lady PhD in France Gabriel Lippmann Mimoza Ristova -Maria Curie-RAD-2012
Radioactivity is a property of atoms_____________________ Mimoza Ristova -Maria Curie-RAD-2012
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1903 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1903 was divided, one half awarded to Antoine Henri Becquerel "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his discovery of spontaneous radioactivity",the other half jointly to Pierre Curie and Marie Curie, née Sklodowska"in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel". Mimoza Ristova -Maria Curie-RAD-2012
Nobel Prize in Physics 1903 Mimoza Ristova -Maria Curie-RAD-2012
Curies in wellbeing 1904 -Irene (8) и Eve (1) Mimoza Ristova -Maria Curie-RAD-2012
Isolation of Ra and Po Mimoza Ristova -Maria Curie-RAD-2012
Ores containing Ra and Po Charcoalit U- blend Mimoza Ristova -Maria Curie-RAD-2012
Ores containing U-salts 1,4 g (Ra) t1/2(Ra-226)=138,4 d 1 mg (Po) t1/2(Po-210)=1620 y 1 t (U-ore) Mimoza Ristova -Maria Curie-RAD-2012
Laboratory work for Po -separation___________________________________ U-blend+HCl(aq) Clhorides in-sollution: U, Th, Pb, Cu, As, Sb, Bi, X +H2S(aq) Sulphides: Pb, Cu, As, Sb, Bi, X+ (NH4)2S As &Sb in Sol, while the deposit containsPb, Cu, Bi, X+ NH3(aq)+ HCl(aq) Cu in sol, in deposit remain hydroxides Pb, Bi, X+ HCl(aq) + H2S(aq) Deposit of sulfides : Pb, Bi, X (sublimation at700oC) Sulfide XS = PoS Mimoza Ristova -Maria Curie-RAD-2012
Two new elements - Po84 andRa88_________________________ Mimoza Ristova -Maria Curie-RAD-2012
Short term happiness followed by trauma____________________________ Pierre Curi(1859-1906) Mimoza Ristova -Maria Curie-RAD-2012
The years of loneliness ____________________________ …“Broken in pain, I wasn’t feeling ready to face the future. However, I could never forget what my husband said, that even if one day HE IS GONE, I should continue with our work…” Picture she inserted in to Pierre’s coffin Mimoza Ristova -Maria Curie-RAD-2012
1906 –First woman to establish a laboratory at Sorbonne____________________________ Andre Debierne the assistant who help the prove that Ra is an element. Mimoza Ristova -Maria Curie-RAD-2012
New deep snowFrench Academy of ScienceCurie vs. Brannlie____________________________ Weather one female should enter the Academy? Mimoza Ristova -Maria Curie-RAD-2012
Victim of a French Xenophobia of ultranationalist press_______________________________ Marie is Jewish??!!! Racist analysis of her facial features and the handwriting Mimoza Ristova -Maria Curie-RAD-2012
Stigmatization in the media_______________________________________________________________ • Time adjusted eruption of the scandal related to her love affaire with Paul Langevain, former Pierre’s bright student. Paul Langevain Mimoza Ristova -Maria Curie-RAD-2012
Victim of sexism (gender discrimination in the FAS) YES! For Mr. Brannlie NO! For M-me Curie Mimoza Ristova -Maria Curie-RAD-2012
Criteria for election (MORE .....).____________________________ Is it that Branlie was appointed to FAS because he was MORE FRANCH MORE CHATOLIC MORE MAN • than Marie Sklodowska Curie???? Mimoza Ristova -Maria Curie-RAD-2012
1911 – Exile before the ruthless “crucifixion” of the public opinion ______________________________________ Mimoza Ristova -Maria Curie-RAD-2012
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1911____________________________ The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1911 was awarded to Marie Curie "in recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element". Mimoza Ristova -Maria Curie-RAD-2012
New depression____________________________ Was that a to big snow caused by the the gender chauvinism, anti-Semitism (?), nationalism ??? All of those discriminations at a same time!!?? Mimoza Ristova -Maria Curie-RAD-2012
..Than she was married to the Radium laboratory..____________________________ Irene and Marie Curie Mimoza Ristova -Maria Curie-RAD-2012
Illness –victim of professional exposure and painful death (1934)_______________________________________________________________________________ Pantheon - Paris Mimoza Ristova -Maria Curie-RAD-2012