Marie Curie: The Courage of Knowledge Page #6

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Marie! Nobody until now

has been awarded Nobel twice!

Nobody!

You are the first one!

Will you forgive me.

I must share the news

with my daughters immediately.

Of course.

Mum? There are journalists

waiting in front of the house.

How can they know so quickly?

Dress up. I'll be in a minute.

Now they are making a Jew

out of you.

Trust me, nobody will have mercy

with you!

You must abandon him.

I haven't done anything

that I should be ashamed of.

Do you want to destroy

the work of your life?

Where are you going?

My distillation can't wait.

Madame Curie!

Madame Curie! Here!

One question, please, Madame Curie!

Is it true that you will force

professor Langevin to leave his wife?

How long have you been having

the affair?!

You are destroying family values!

Are you Jewish?

Say that you didn't do it?!

Say that the press is lying!

- You better help me!

- They will raise hell here!

- We have a lot of work to do.

- Work...

While everybody is talking

about your love affair?

Paul asked me to be his second.

He challenged Gustave Try.

No, not this!

We are to meet tomorrow in Vincennes.

We can't allow this!

What else do you know?

Andr?!

You can't do this, Paul!

I don't control anything anymore!

Not if you leave your wife at last.

- She'll demand custody of the children.

- Agree then.

That will put an end to her blackmail!

And we will find a way for you to see

your children as now.

- No, no, no.

- Jeanne will never agree to this.

- Learn to fight for your rights.

You need no gun to do this!

We will sue her for theft,

defamation and privacy violation!

Marie.

But I can't publicly drag

the mother of my children to the courts.

She threatened to kill me.

Your wife always used you

for her advantage.

I don't mean living together straight away,

we'll have to wait until...

Until what?

Until I become more like Pierre?

You are afraid of divorce, but you are not afraid

of playing with death?

It's a matter of honour, Marie.

Trivial matter, Paul.

Don't talk about something

you can't understand.

Go away from there.

What you are for me no other woman

can become, never.

Say you didn't do it?!

Say the press is lying!

Marie, we will get crazy if we are not able

to live as we like.

Mum!

Don't be naive.

Paul will never be Pierre.

Life is so trivial

if you can not think together.

Tomorrow at dawn in Vincennes Groove.

We can not allow this!

This is a matter of honour.

Go on! I will tell you

where to stop.

Oh, Mum I thought you were dead!

I am sorry Irne, I am so sorry.

Who are this people outside?

Why are they calling you names?

I am, I am already now.

Time to go to sleep.

We will manage, Marie.

We will survive this.

Gentlemen, shake your hands.

Ten, nine, eight...

I shall not deprive France

of one of its most eminent minds!

Don't offend me, please!

Shoot!

Long live France and its scientists!

Paul! Stop it!

Move along!

Move along, everybody!

What would I do without you?

I don't want to hide anymore.

I don't understand why Langevin

challenged Try

to a duel if the accusations

were groundless.

All this mess around your person

has put

the Swedish Academy of Science

in a difficult position.

We prepared an announcement

in which you declare,

that you voluntarily renounce

the Nobel Prize.

At least until this story with Langevin

is settled.

This is the most elegant outcome

in this situation. For everybody.

The Prize was given to me

for my radium discovery.

A scientist's achievements

has nothing to do

with his private life.

The European press writes for weeks

only about your moral indecency.

Only because I am a woman.

If you want to exclude every male scientist

who has had some love affair,

you will be left with nobody

to give the Nobel Prize to.

Since I can't count on your cooperation,

and considering the amplitude

of the scandal,

I have no other choice, but to forbid

you to travel to Stockholm.

Must we really part with him?

The element 88 is, since today,

property of the world!

I would have never managed

without your help, Andree!

In case something happened to me,

I must be assured

that nothing will be lost.

What are you talking about?

Here is a full list of our samples,

plus my instructions.

It's everything you should know.

Marie, you will outlive us all!

What will you tell your grandchildren,

gentlemen,

when they one day ask you

how could have been so blind?

Thanks to my isolation...

Full of contradictions...

Incalculable chemistry...

Flowers for Madame.

Leave me alone!

Madame. Mademoiselle.

Here is a miserable fool, standing before you

with his mind limited

by the ideas of previous century.

Madame, please accept my apology!

Everyone should act according

to their convictions.

Good luck, Madame.

If you allow me one last question.

Where will you put

your second Nobel Prize?

Next to the first one.

I hope I have correctly interpreted the recognition

of the Academy

assuming it refers to both,

mine and my husband

- Pierre Curie's achievements.

We should be less curious to know people

and more curious to know their thoughts.

The rejection of knowledge and the fear

of creative thinking lead to lost societies.

One shouldn't be scared of anything in life,

but strive to comprehend.

Who would we be without

curiosity of mind?

I am one of these who consider science

to be an expression of beauty.

I am happy to be able to devote my life

to discovering

mystery of the universe.

In 1935, Irne returned to Stockholm

and was the second woman

after her mother

to be awarded a Nobel Prize.

The fate of the Curie and Langevin families

remained intertwined:

In 1950, Marie Curie's granddaughter, Hlne married

Michel Langevin, the grandson of Paul Langevin.

Hlne and Michel are both physicists.

Marie Curie died in 1934 at the age of 66.

In 1995, her remains were transfered together

with those of Pierre Curie to the Parisian Pantheon,

where Paul Langevin was also interred in 1948.

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