The scientific discoveries of Marie and Pierre Curie are well known throughout the world, in addition to being recognized by the two Nobel Prizes awarded to Marie. Their importance in science is proven, but this couple exuded chemistry in more than just their discoveries. And little is what we know about this love story between Marie and Pierre Curie.
A relationship with a lot of chemistry
- Since the love story of Marie and Pierre Curie takes place in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, we don’t have much information about her personal life. And if we know about their first meeting, the truth is that they have transmitted it to us with a few doses of passion. Perhaps because their relationship was not based on carnal desire, typical of two lovers, but on a passion for science, more typical of two geniuses.
- Both pointed to ways of geniuses since their childhood. Although it was not very difficult for Pierre to enter the University to study Physics, Marie had it a little more complicated since her native Poland where he was not well seen of women attending the University. Marie herself had to move to Paris where she was finally able to attend university, although she still seemed very strange to a woman with such decisiveness and independence.
- Both had also given up on love and having a family long ago, preferring to live absorbed in scientific research. And it was fate who decided to bring them together so they didn’t have to give up anything. They say it was a crush, moderate, correct, but crush after all. They say that when Pierre discovered a Marie passionate about science at the University, sure of herself and her abilities and with a look that shone with her illusion, he fell madly in love with her.
A well-matched marriage for science
- Shortly after they met, Marie and Pierre Curie were married. Why were they going to wait if they didn’t have plenty of time? They had many investigations, many experiments ahead. And from now on they would do it together. That it was a well-matched marriage there is no doubt because otherwise they would not have been so successful in their discoveries. Spending 24 hours a day together is either done with love or it is not done.
- In any case, the couple was an example of the reconciliation of family and work life, which brings us so head over heels today. Because Marie and Pierre not only worked, they also had time to raise and educate their two daughters, thus forming that family they had once given up on.
- That’s why I don’t love this love story with a lot of chemistry. That is why we admire the love of these two brilliant minds, because they were able to do great things together, without canceling each other out, but complementing each other. The passion united them, the passion for science and constant work. Without a doubt, the dream of any couple is to support and love each other until the day they die, just like Marie and Pierre Curie did.