"I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory."
"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."
-Marie Curie
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There's no way I could possibly go through a long history-of-science blog series without mentioning the great Marie Skłodowska Curie, one of the very few people in history to win not one but two Nobel Prizes for her scientific work-- if nothing else, Polish pride would demand it.
I just finished off one big chunk of grading, and on this exam, as is my custom, I give students a few bonus points with an easy question at the end.
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