In November 1911 , Marie Sk?odowska - Curie was workweek away from being grant the Nobel Prize in Chemistry . She received her first Nobel in 1903 for Physics , and the new laurels intend that she was the first person ever to get two Prizes . She remains the only person to be recognized in two different sciences . Though her over-the-top work as a scientist should have been all anyone cared about , it seemed that many were preoccupied with her personal life history .
Pierre Curie break in 1906 , leave behind Marie as a widow . A few years later , she becameromantically involvedwith physicist Paul Langevin , who had been a doctoral bookman of Pierre ’s . Though Langevin was carve up from his wife , they were still technically married . The kinship stimulate troubles in the Langevin dwelling house , but that was nothing compared towhat was aboutto spill over into the public centre .
Curie , Langevin , and about 20 other scientist were invited to an elect , invitation - only league in Brussels in the downslope of 1911 . During this time , love letters between Curie and Langevin had been given to members of the medium by Langevin ’s wife , who present Curie as an evil homewrecker . When Curie return home to France after the league , she was recognize by a mob that surrounded her menage and terrified Curie ’s daughters , who were only 7 and 14 years old at the time . Curie and her daughters temporarily moved in with a friend until the outrage die down .
Albert Einstein — who had just of late been acquaint to Curie at the Brussels conference — was revolt by the media ’s actions , prompting him to write this letter to his new ally :
Translation : Haters gon na hate .
( Sidenote : “ Perrin ” refers to Jean Perrin , a family friend of the Curies and Langevins , whodefended Curiein the aftermath )
This letter to Curie was uncovered by astrobiologistDavid Grinspoon , who was peruse the K of Einstein ’s document recently made available online by thePrinceton University Press .
