singerbert:

hitcunts:

dj-froge:

sixpenceee:

First Human X-ray 1896. The woman, Marie Curie, who took part in this experiment had so many X-rays taken that she developed a form of blood cancer and died.

Took part? TOOK PART????? SHE FUCKIN INVENTED THAT SHIT WITH HER BAE (that’s pierre curie)! Please don’t erase her enormous contributions and sacrifices to science by reducing her to some fuckin test subject k thanks. 

She also won two Nobel prizes (one for physics and one for chemistry) and gave one to her husband (burn). She was a bamf.

There’s so much wrong with this, where do I start?

The first human X-ray was taken by Wilhelm Röntgen of his wife. (And the pictures above are in fact of a man named Albert von Kölliker) While the Curies were NOT involved in the discovery of X-rays or the creation of the first X-ray machines, they were inspired by the work of Röntgen and Becquerel to look further into radiation, discovering the Elements polonium and radium in the process.

Marie Curie did NOT “invent that shit” but she developed mobile X-ray machines to be used in World War I and coordinated their installation, use, and trained a lot of women to operate them.

She also did NOT get sick from “having so many X-rays taken” but bc she served as a radiologist during the war (without any protective gear bc the dangers of radiation weren’t known back then) and bc of her tireless work with radioactive material.

I have never heard of her giving one of her prizes to her husband (afaik she won the first one with her husband and Henri Becquerel) but she was very generous with the prize money, giving a lot of it to friends, family, students, and colleagues. She was also the first woman to win a Nobel prize, the first person to win two Nobel prizes, and is still the only person with Nobel prizes in two different sciences.

Marie Curie was indeed a bamf and her accomplishments were far more than just the few I just listed.