Marie Curie, Open Source, Kickstarter, and Women in Tech
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Marie Curie publishes the exact radium refining method while patenting the sensitive measuring instruments and founding the Radium Institute to consult and train others, a pragmatic split forced partly because married women cannot hold intellectual property under French law; she isolates about 0.1 gram after refining tons of pitchblende. Her lab holds less than one gram while the U.S. has ~2,200 g and a gram costs $100,000 in 1921, so a Kickstarter-style subscription fund buys a gram; she open-sources the refining process yet keeps patented measuring devices.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:11What I expected
- 2:27Curies work
- 7:01Opensourcing radium
- 14:18Marie Curies Career
- 20:46Marie Curie Kickstarter
- 24:17Power of Heroes
- 26:37Conclusion
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