July 13, 1898, Pierre Kerry He wrote in his diary the discovery that he had just made with his wife Marie Curie, This is a new element that they decided to name Polonio, a name that gave a direct link to their homeland, where it was born in 1867, and at that time it was not considered a country, which led to the debate about what was considered a political statement.
The context of Poland, in which Maria Curie grew up and was born
Marie Curie was born like Maria Salome Sklodovsk On November 7, 1867, in Warsaw, present -day Poland, which at that time was part of the Russian Empire, so it will grow in the educational environment in which it recognized in Russian, and Polish speech was not clearly visible.
This atmosphere against the Polish language as part of the culture of the territory was what caused patriotism in its youth and was provided that he worked as a governess, teaching varnish to children day and night at the age of 17, who accumulated money to be able to study in Paris.
Own Marie Curie He recalled those moments when talking about the Polish language pursued: “Even children, constantly under suspicion and spy, knew that a simple conversation in a Polish or reckless word could cause serious damage not only for themselves, but also their families.”
At 24, in 1891, he left his hometown to go to the capital of France to study mathematics and physics, also from the fact that women with the difficulties of women studied at the University of Warsaw, in which they had no access, but she would have overcome underground.
The discovery of polonium and political debate that Maria Curie began
In the French capital, she would have acted with high notes and met her husband Pierre. Both will work together and develop radioactivity and X -RAYS, which can be given by the discovery of Polonia, whose chemical element was considered the first political, and this is already predicted Dmitry Mendel in 1891.
Marie Curie, in fact, urged him not only to pay tribute to her origin, but also to ask for attention to the situation of his homeland, which will not restore his independence until 1918 after the centuries of management of others and constantly under the rule of her neighbors.
In fact, the one who gave him the Nobel Prize in 1903 opened further discussions about the name of the chemical element of Polonium, which, however, would be overshadowed by the detection of radioactivity and X -RAYS, but which managed to talk about him, as the scientist suggested.
Marie and Pierre Curie They found Polonio thanks to uranium minerals in nature absorbed by organic substances and clay minerals, 10,000 times more toxic than cyanide, and with a lethal dose for people in less than 10 micrograms, therefore it was used as poison and in the creation of armed weapons, but also as a heat source in space equipment.
