{"id":14707,"date":"2015-10-23T08:22:44","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T07:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ch.imperial.ac.uk\/rzepa\/blog\/?p=14707"},"modified":"2015-10-23T08:22:44","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T07:22:44","slug":"pierre-and-marie-curie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rzepa.net\/blog\/?p=14707","title":{"rendered":"Pierre and Marie Curie."},"content":{"rendered":"
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I have previously shown<\/a> the grave of \u00a0William Perkin, a great british organic chemist. On a recent visit to \u00a0Paris, I went to see the crypt in the Panth\u00e9on<\/a>, the great french secular necropolis. What a contrast to Perkin!\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The Curies have a crypt all to themselves (VII), and other great french scientists\u00a0such as Bertholet and Langevin as well as mathematicians such as Lagrange who are also interred in other crypts. It is surprising in fact how exclusive admission to the Pantheon is (and how much space for new tombs there still is); whilst many of the graves relate to famous soldiers dating from the french revolution and not a few politicians of course as well as famous literary figures, science and chemistry are very well represented! The French have even named a metro station<\/a> after the Curies …<\/p>\n

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with a\u00a0\u00a0caption that makes nice reading for the passengers whilst waiting for a train.<\/p>\n

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A highly readable description of their work can be found in Oliver Sacks’ book Uncle Tungsten<\/em><\/a>. And if you ever visit Paris, remember to ask to go to Gay-Lussac’s lab<\/a>\u00a0(who is not interred in the Panth\u00e9on<\/a>),\u00a0preserved in a time-warp\u00a0from 100 years ago.<\/p>\n\n<\/div> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have previously shown the grave of \u00a0William Perkin, a great british organic chemist. On a recent visit to \u00a0Paris, I went to see the crypt in the Panth\u00e9on, the great french secular necropolis. What a contrast to Perkin!\u00a0 The Curies have a crypt all to themselves (VII), and other great french scientists\u00a0such as Bertholet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[558],"tags":[1528],"class_list":["post-14707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical","tag-historical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gPyz-3Pd","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rzepa.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rzepa.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rzepa.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rzepa.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rzepa.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rzepa.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rzepa.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rzepa.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rzepa.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}