einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter: (1) your haters are trash (2) you’re a baller, a true queen (3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️

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I also asked the question: is this real? Welp, it's every bit the antithesis of chatbot material.

Slid right into her DMs

By the time Einstein wrote to her Marie Curie had already won two Nobel Prizes, which he never did. Einstein had done the work he won his Nobel Prize for - photoelectric effect - as well as Special Relativity which should have got him a prize

This is amazing.

what a friggin g 🥰

Not that it matters but "highly esteemed" is the most normal possible way of opening a letter like this in German at that time. "Sehr geehrte" is a phrase that every German speaker knows, the way we know "sincerely yours" without exactly knowing why we know it.

Wait I need the context. Marie Curie had haters?

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Things I've always wanted to say -> I have determined a law of nature by means of a comical witticism ...