Madame Curie, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics and Chemistry successively, is a French-born Polish scientist. She studied radioactivity and discovered a series of new elements, including radium and polonium. For decades, Madame Curie has been engaged in the research of radioactive substances for a long time. Coupled with the harsh experimental environment and lack of strict protection for her body, she is often attacked by radioactive elements, which gradually damages her blood and causes leukemia.
She also suffers from lung disease, eye disease, gallbladder disease, kidney disease and even insanity. In Madame Curie's view, scientific research is more important than her own health. In order to attend the World Physics Congress, she asked the doctor to postpone the kidney operation. She returned to China to attend the opening ceremony of the Radium Institute.
She once endured the fear of blindness and stubbornly carried out scientific research. Until the last breath of her life, she was lying in bed with pernicious anemia and high fever. She still asked her daughter to report to her about the work in the laboratory and proofread the book Radioactivity for her. Madame Curie passed away on July 4th, 934. She devoted her whole life to the science she loved.
2. Thomas Midgley
Thomas Mickey is an American chemist who invented leaded gasoline and chlorofluorocarbons. Although he received a lot of praise before his death, what really made Miqili famous was that he was called "the individual creature that had the greatest impact on the atmosphere in the history of the earth" and "the individual who killed the most people in history" because of his inventions.
He later contracted polio and lead poisoning and was paralyzed in bed. To this end, he invented a rope pulley system to facilitate getting up. Later, at the age of 55, he was entangled in a pulley rope and suffocated. His invention of pulley and leaded gasoline contributed to his death, which is a typical example of his "playing" death.
3. Lilienthal
Lilienthal is a German engineer, glider and one of the pioneers of aviation in the world. He first designed and manufactured a practical glider, and was called "the father of gliders". Newspapers and magazines in many countries have published photos of Lilienthal's gliding, which makes the long-cherished wish of human beings to invent a flying tool come true.
However, exploration always comes at a price. 18 On April 9th, 1996, Lilienthal encountered a strong wind while operating his glider. The glider stalled and fell to the ground. The glider was destroyed and Lilienthal was fatally injured-his spine was broken and he died the next day. On his deathbed, he said to his brother Gustav, "Someone has to die."
4. humphry davy
Humphry davy is an American chemist. He was born in a poor family in the United States on February 7, 20071778/KLOC-0. His father died young, and his mother could not support five children on the small farm where his father lived, so she sold the farm and with the help of her adoptive father Tom King, the whole family moved to Penzance.
Humphry davy's greatest contribution to chemistry in his life is to open up a new way to prepare metal elements by electrolysis: that is, to study the chemical effect of electricity by using voltaic cells, to electrolyze caustic soda that could not be decomposed before, to prepare potassium and sodium, and later to prepare alkaline earth metals such as barium, magnesium, calcium and strontium.
Later, he made boron by strongly reducing potassium; Gases have also been deeply studied; Nitrous oxide, which is narcotic and irritating, was found, which played a great role in scientific development. He proved that chlorine is a chemical element through experiments, put forward that the indispensable element in acid is hydrogen, not oxygen, revised lavoisier's view that "acid must contain oxygen", and invented the safety lamp for coal mine, which benefited underground workers a lot.
When he goes deep into the field of chemistry, he has the habit of inhaling all kinds of gases. This bad habit directly led him to discover nitrous oxide with anesthetic properties. Unfortunately, the same habit led him to almost commit suicide on many occasions, during which an explosion of nitrogen trichloride permanently damaged his eyes. Frequent poisoning finally made him spend 20 years in an ineffective life.
5. Parry Thomas
Parry Thomas is a Welsh racing driver and engineer. He always dreamed of breaking the speed record set by Malcolm Campbell, so he began to try to build a car to realize his dream. Finally, the car was built. He named the car babs. Thomas made many improvements to the car. He exposed the chain connecting the wheel to the engine outside the car.
1926 On April 27th, Parry Thomas broke the speed record set by Malcolm Campbell, and the next day he increased the speed to170km per hour. This record was broken by Malcolm Campbell the following year. Parry Thomas suddenly broke the chain when he regained the record, and part of it hit him, causing him to die on the spot.