The most important thing
you will talk about values, arrange their hierarchy
you will talk about the character traits that are useful in the workwork of a scientistscientist
you will describe illustrations depicting various laboratory interiors
you will describe the working conditions of nineteenth‑century chemists and physicist
Arrange the names of values in accordance with your feelings.
Formulate your own thought according to the formula:
“I am one of those who believes that Science is something very beautiful” – Maria Skłodowska‑Curie.
I am one of those who…
Read a fragment of the story of Ewa Curie titled “Robaczki świętojańskie” in the lesson “The most important thing“. Check the meaning of incomprehensible expressions by clicking on the words underlined in the text.
Search in the text “Robaczki świętojańskie” for fragments describing the place of work of Maria and Piotr Curie. Tell what’s missing there? What disturbs scientists at work?

Which character traits can be attributed to Maria Skłodowska-Curie based on the descriptions below? Which of these features decided that she could be among the greatest scholars of the early twentieth century?
stubborn, honest, talented, caring, perseverant
| Thanks to the work of her brain and her muscles on the lab tables, there are increasingly more active compounds, richer in radium. | |
| Piotr Curie did not take into account the character of his wife, Maria wants to emanate radium, so they did it together. | |
| Maria constantly remakes, kilograms per kilogram, tons of uranium tar waste. Thanks to superhuman patience, she is also a physicist and chemist, engineer, foreman and maker. | |
| We must not take advantage of the fact that our discovery also has a commercial future ahead of us. If radium is to be used as a remedy, it does not seem possible for us to make money form it. | |
| Maria bathed and laid her daughter down, then sat for a long moment beside her bed. This is a "ritual". |
Maria Skłodowska‑Curie, one of the first women, obtained a driving license and reached Rysy, was one of the first students at the Sorbonne and the first female professor at the university.
What values seem most important for Mr and Mrs Curie? Choose from the given. Justify your choice. Refer to relevant parts of the text.
How was this lesson? Did you like it? Finish selected sentences.
Keywords
work, sciencescience, values, invention, equality
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