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Einstein's Letter to Marie Curie: Ignore the Haters

Haters gonna hate even Nobel Prize winning physicist Marie Curie. In a recently released letter, fellow scientific genius Albert Einstein
offered some words of support to Curie as she faced her critics.

BY BIO STAFF, DEC 8, 2014

The Internet was on fire yet again with another high-profile trolling incident involving some famous names. . . from over a
century ago. Everyone seems to be talking about a recently released letter from Albert
Albert
Albert Einstein
Einstein
Einstein to pioneering female
physicist Marie
Marie
Marie Curie
Curie
Curie telling her not to sweat the “reptiles” a.k.a. trolls of their day.
Albert Einstein
Marie Curie
The year was 1911 and haters were hating on Nobel Prize winner Curie who was denied a seat in the French Academy
of Sciences, possibly because she was a woman, an atheist and for having a scandalous relationship with a married
man, fellow scientist Paul Langevin who, at the time, was estranged from his wife.

Einstein’s letter of support was recently posted online, among 5,000 of his personal papers as part the Digital
Digital
Digital Einstein
Einstein
Einstein
Papers
Papers,
Papers and shows that even geniuses like Curie landed under a microscope of unfair criticism. Here’s Einstein’s
Einstein’s
Einstein’s letter
letter:
letter
Digital Einstein
Papers Einstein’s letter

This letter is just one small glimpse into the treasure trove of Einstein’s papers now online for the world to read. For
more, visit the Digital
Digital
Digital Einstein
Einstein
Einstein Papers
Papers.
Papers

Digital Einstein Papers

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