Albert Einsteins letter to Marie Curie. In November 1911, Marie Curie was weeks away from being awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. She received her first Nobel in 1903 for Physics, and the new award meant that she was the first person ever to receive two Prizes.
Though her extraordinary work as a scientist should have been all anyone cared about, it seemed that many were preoccupied with her personal life. Due to her romantic affiliation with physicist Paul Langevin who was at the time married, the media began to portray her as some evil homewrecker.
During this time, love letters between Curie and Langevin had been given to members of the media by Langevin’s wife, who portrayed Curie as an evil home wrecker.
When Curie returned home to France after the conference, she was greeted by a mob that surrounded her house and terrified her daughters. Albert Einstein was disgusted by the media’s behavior, and decided to write her a letter which basically said to ignore the haters. (Source)
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