"Shake it off," Frau Curie.
Albert Einstein might not have used those words in 1911, but he penned a pep talk to Nobel Prize winner, Marie Curie, after she was "dissed" by the scientific community, according to Vox.
Curie won the Nobel Prize for her work on radioactivity, but she lost her bid for a seat in the French Academy of Sciences. Curie had a few strikes against her: she was a woman, an atheist and possibly Jewish (which was an issue in France at that time).
The biggest scandal, though, was what Einstein referred to when he dropped the name of physicist Paul Langevin, according to Vox. Langevin was unhappily married with four children when he became romantically involved with the widow Curie, according to the American Institute of Physics.
The letter written by Einstein to Curie was discovered in a recent volume of documents that Einstein left to the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The Hebrew University and Princeton University Press have been reviewing the 80,000 documents since 1986, according to Inquisitr.
In the letter, Einstein hails Curie for the intellectually stunning woman she was and calls those who disagreed, "reptiles."
Einstein was a bit of a scallywag himself, as evidenced by letters published in 2006, according to NBC News. The father of the theory of relativity had a least six girlfriends while he was married to his first wife, Mileva Maric, whom he divorced in 1919. The wild-haired scientist then married his cousin, Elsa - although, he cheated on her with his secretary, Betty Neumann. Einstein was a ladies' man; he even dated a Russian spy.
