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To throw some extra context here, the tabloids were flipping out because the widowed Marie was in a relationship with the married but separated Langevin (who had been Pierre Curie's grad student) and the tabloids were calling her a foreign Jewish homewrecker. Classic tabloid shit.
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Perrin, another French physicist, was at the Solvay Conference, one of the most consequential physics conferences in history, in Brussels with E, C, and L. L and P were working on statistical physics models that verified E's Brownian motion work, which confirmed the atomic theory of matter.
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