Rob Reacts to... Maria Skłodowska-Curie | A Radiant Career 

Rob, Joseph Conrad is also 100% Polish.

I don't want to be presumptuous by saying that all these "great" scientists" are not creating anything. They are just discovering what has long been there. Do you think that everything around us just arose out of nothing? Strange question? Perhaps, but very specific.

Polish nationalism is not German nationalism (chauvinism). Polish nationalism = patriotism. This is our national pride.

Bzdury!

No, ja! Duperella jest duperella

Nope. Most Poles would call her Sklodowska.

​@@podunkman2709 Most Poles use slashed L in her family name. Just like she.

The problem with her name comes grom the fact that the French didn't allow women to keep their maiden names. But she did according to Polish rules. Her Nobel Prize diploma reads Skłodowska-Curie.

​@@podunkman2709nope

@@podunkman2709 dont be stupid

What basement? Groundwork! Duuuuudeee

@@cathulhu3772 They worked in a basement. ;)

" similar story " , how stupid one can be ?

@@peterkonitzer4410 Similar, when it comes to attempts to erase the achievements of Poles in the field of science. Maria Skłodowska-Curie is known to most of the world as a French-born woman who owes her achievements to her French education. The decryption of the enigma is credited to Alan Mathison Turing and the Bombe machine he constructed at Bletchley Park, completely ignoring the fact that Poles helped break the code. The British struggled to understand how the machine worked, but the Poles began making progress before the start of World War II. The main cipher makers who joined the Cipher Bureau of the General Staff in Warsaw were Jerzy Różycki, Henryk Zygalski and Marian Rejewski. The team developed tools to work with hundreds of permutations, including punched cards and a mechanical device with rotors mimicking the Enigma, which the team called the bomb for unknown reasons. Both concepts were later used and developed by Alan Turing. As for the "stupid Poles" jokes, it's easy to call some other nation stupid when history has been rewritten.

oh British ...lazy beer drinkers

In addition, in two different fields, Physics and Chemistry.

She is the only person! who got Nobel prize in 2 different fields.

​​​@@marek7641 there are few people who got Nobel's price twice (Linus Pauling for example) however she is the only person who won this price in 2 different scientific fields

My pleasure

like they always do when it suits them ... but never fight

Yes, indeed. A pity really her children never gained half of the popularity of their mother since it indeed was a very accomplished and very talented family. But also a family with a true love for science and education. Her daugther shows how much determination and self-discipline her mother was able to instill in her kids while being a full time busy scientist trying to be equal to males in times were labs across Europe were in most cases completely inaccessible to women.

These things really do seem to run in families!

Już nie raz nawiązywał do weekendowych wypadów do Krakowa na chlańsko :D

@@bartoszjasinski chlańsko chlańskiem ale jak już masz jakąś wiedzę o mieście to warto też docenić inne atrakcje niż tani browar.

@@tuomollo Masz rację, ale powiedz to mieszkańcom Krakowa. Żeby wyszli późną sobotą do nawalonych brytyjczyków i opowiadali im o 'mieście królów' :D

I have been to Krakow 4 times and my wife to Gdansk once. Ive explored things such as the jewish quarter, old town, the camps, salt mine etc. You can see our recent trips on our vlog channel :) But we do plan on coming again. ru-vid.com/group/PLw4JaWCFm7FeHG7Ad5PtaZzoYd1Vq5EXW

I can assure you I didnt visit every time to just get drunk. Well my Stag do I did but thats just once our of four times :D

Glad others can learn along with me 😊

They did like five times! Most recent ones are called "Radioactive" (2019) and "Marie Curie: The Courage of Knowledge" (2016)

@@Jagodamusa I swear on my granny, I've never heard of them. Or any other Marie C film. Thanx. I'll look into those.

The first film about her is from 1943. "Madame Curie". Miniseries "Marie Curie, une femme honorable" from 1990. "Les Palmes de M. Schutz" from 1997. "Maria Skłodowska-Curie" from 2016. "Radioactive" from 2019. And many more, including a lot of documentaries.

Its actually 21:38 but im confused about these comments haha

@@RobReacts1 it is about an hour when Polish pope died It is popular meme, one of "funny numbers" in Poland

do you have any good videos?

Cheers Marcin 🙂

@@RobReacts1 😁😁😁

That's incredibly kind. Thank you so much 😊

It's fascinating!!

the are no "V" in Pole alphabet, lol.

@@ZanHellish Where did I say that?

@@ZanHellish It's the spelling of her name for an Englishman to pronounce it. Nothing to do with Polish ortography

@@polswiss 💩

@@ZanHellish where the arguments end shows the culture 😂

My pleasure. You may get Aussies watching it :)

@@RobReacts1 than you can make reaction to gen. Kościuszko. The highest mountain in Australia is Kościuszko Mountain (yeah, they write it differently). Do they even know who he was? He was Pole and remarcable character. But Brits may not be very found of him as he becsme one of the most important American general in Revolution war. Guess which side? Those who wanted to gain their independence.

@@jutrzenka7503 Do you have a good video

I really hate nationalism. Its a bad thing that makes people think their county is better than others. Wereas Patriotism is appreciating how good your country is without thinking its better than others

Nationalizm is a patriotism. He totally mixes up his views on a fact, that there are vocabulary differences and words that sound very similar have not the same cultural conotations. It's like dem/rep left/right. It says nothing or everything depending on a nation. You can be a leftie socialist and still have patriotic "nationalist" views on good of a homeland and supporting your own country's businness

This is a quote from one of the greatest Polish nationalists, Wincenty Lutosławski, a friend of the creator of Polish statehood: (google translate) The Polish nation includes Germans, Tatars, Armenians, Gypsies, Jews, if they live up to the common ideal of Poland. A Negro or a red-skinned person can become a true Pole if he accepts the spiritual heritage of the Polish nation contained in its literature, art, politics, customs, if he has an unwavering will to contribute to the development of the national existence of Poles.

I pronounced it correctly right?

​@@RobReacts1 Youʼre actually very close. Just one tiny detail - the letter Ł in Polish is pronounced like W in English. Still, you nail Polish names extraordinarily well for a foreigner, itʼs very impressive 😁

@@RobReacts1 Nearly, but accent in "Maria" you put in Russian way (accent on "i") while in Polish we put the accent on the first syllable (for this word, I'm not sure how it is generally but probably the third from the end or so), so it's rather "MAria" ;). And Skłodowska would be perfect if you don't forget that Ł is like English W. Interesting thing - we say "Maryja" (and write it this way) for the God's Mother's name to differ it from common name Maria. (Remember that y is pronounced like English voiceless "i" in words "will", "hill" etc.). I don't want to bother you, but I see that you are really interested in Poland and Polish, so I want to help you be more familiar with our language, especially that the pronunciation rules are really strict and simple even if grammar or the pronunciation itself could be a bt hard for foreigners :). If you are interested, I have a small "pronunciation dictionary" for English speakers - I can send it to you. Anyway, if I did some mistakes in my English comment, I would be grateful when you tell me about it :D.

...because we Poles get ecstatic spasms hearing good things about us :D

Im confused... haha

@@RobReacts1 probably the biggest polish meme number, our pope died at 21:37 (9:37 pm). Instatly makes it pope reference

Do you have a good video that isnt really long that I could react to?

Could you find me some good links and put them in my discord server suggested videos :)

@@RobReacts1 JAN CZOCHRALSKI !!!!!!!! St.Banach !!!

@@RobReacts1 Polish mathematicians who first broke ENIGMA. This is good movie about it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VIRi8qdFRMA.html&ab_channel=TheFront

Might be a bit long for a reaction. Could you find one that is a bit shorter?

She never was French female, dude, wake up!

@@ZanHellish to be precise she indeed was by marriage,but for me she is full blood polish lady.

Very good point :)

I would say yes, but I must admit that there are also some greedy Poles. It just depends on whether one has had any difficulties in life or is well educated and knows that many people, both in the country and in the world, have had and still have difficulties in life - without such knowledge or experience, greed has the upper hand (except the hardened egocentrics naturally greedy). Most Poles have deep sympathy for people in urgent need and are able to reject their slightly egocentric point of view in everyday small matters in favor of something more socially important. Sometimes foreigners accused Poles of being closed and reluctant towards migrants, but as a nation that has faced many difficulties in history and fought with them, we have learned to see if someone really needs help or just wants something for free, giving nothing in exchange. We have great compassion for people in sudden and innocent need, but we are dissatisfied with people who do not want to help themselves first, but want to get the convenience of life for free. A lot of Poles used to and still move around the world, but I have not heard that in the long run as a group they were financial or social burden for the natives anywhere. To sum up - Maria Skłodowska-Curie significantly stands out above all the good qualities that I have partially mentioned, which is why in Poland she is defined as a role model and remembered with great respect. PS: Another woman in Polish history who is held in similar esteem is Queen Bona Sforza. She came from Italy, married the Polish king, she was perfectly educated, brave and go-getting, she knew politics, so the Polish king willingly and officially used her advice and ideas for reforms that were very much needed for the development of the state. Her interesting and humorous story - unfortunately the sound is only in Polish, but the subtitles can be displayed in English - is here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8uAJcqzEA-8.html

@@JsonQenozis I would agree with most what you said. Greedy people are everywhere, however in slme places there is more of them, in some less. It is not even about greed or not, it is about doing the thing we believe are just right. We have this common sense what are these right things that have to be done no matter what, even against our own interests, it applies also to politics. And we are pretty bold with our moral code. Many times those things are idealistic to the point that might be missunderstood abroad. Foreigners might think we are unpredictable, but we are actually very predictable. There are few who understand this. E.g. Napoleon really didn't understand this when sent Poles to fight with slave uprising in Haiti. Poles made the only right thing - helped people to gain the independence, even if that was against our interest. However I heard somewhere, but I am not able to say if it is true or not, that Hitler attacked Poland first as he knew that nobody would really help, while if he would attack France or UK, Poland would be first to stand up. And this is very realistic scenario. Well, even knowing nobody really helped us we fought in many countries, who unfortunatelly didn't share the same ethic nor morales after war ended.

@@jutrzenka7503 Good point. About the subject of the start of WW II - indeed I have heard of it too, if I am correct it was on "Historia bez cenzury" channel too. Well, it is no wonder when You analize the history of pacts, where Poles were mostly 1st to help. Hitler's advisers calculated well, that in case of attacking France as 1st, Poland would not hesitate to help militarly, and having 2 opened and very active fronts at the start of the war for Nazi Germany would be a disaster. Unfortunately they also knew that many western politicians tends to make tough decisions slowely, which gave Hitler time to deal with Poland as 1st. Putin calculated the same about Ukraine as Hitler about Poland, but fortunately he underestimated Ukraine's capabilities and the stong will of Ukraine's neighbors and allies to help the victim

@@JsonQenozis Very few has changed, like some features are engraved in genes, activated by upbringing.

Z ostatnich osiągnięć polecam grafen

How do you know, they were arrogant?

But great how her husband stood by her side rather than leading Infront of her 🙂