昨天看了電影《居禮夫人：一代科研傳奇》。意想不到一齣科學家傳記電影竟能以如此手法拍攝，印象非常深刻。我不懂藝術亦不懂得寫影評，有時間再寫一篇居禮夫人——瑪莉亞．斯克沃多夫斯卡——的介紹文章。
瑪莉亞．斯克沃多夫斯卡是放射性物理學之母，史上首位亦是唯一一位得到過諾貝爾物理學和化學獎的科學家，算上丈夫、女兒和女婿，居禮家庭共獲得了五個諾貝爾獎獎章。
瑪莉亞因為丈夫死後的私生活而被不少人憎恨。愛因斯坦曾寫過一封信鼓勵她，告訴她「Haters gonna hate」：
Highly esteemed Mrs. Curie,
Do not laugh at me for writing you without having anything sensible to say. But I am so enraged by the base manner in which the public is presently daring to concern itself with you that I absolutely must give vent to this feeling. However, I am convinced that you consistently despise this rabble, whether it obsequiously lavishes respect on you or whether it attempts to satiate its lust for sensationalism! I am impelled to tell you how much I have come to admire your intellect, your drive, and your honesty, and that I consider myself lucky to have made your personal acquaintance in Brussels. Anyone who does not number among these reptiles is certainly happy, now as before, that we have such personages among us as you, and Langevin too, real people with whom one feels privileged to be in contact. If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don’t read that hogwash, but rather leave it to the reptile for whom it has been fabricated.
With most amicable regards to you, Langevin, and Perrin, yours very truly,
A. Einstein
PS I have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in Planck’s radiation field by means of a comical witticism, naturally under the constraint that the structure’s motion follows the laws of standard mechanics. My hope that this law is valid in reality is very small, though.
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