Marie Curie holds iconic status both within the scientific community and in the wider cultural imagination and collective memory. The first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize and the only woman to achieve such an honor twice, Curie is widely celebrated as a female pioneer in the sciences and is held up as a model for all, but particularly women, to emulate. She is revered not only as a ground-breaking scientist, but also as a devoted wife and mother who fostered intellectual passion in her own children, one of whom became the second woman to be honored with the Nobel Prize in Science. Echoing Eva Hemmungs Wirten, we argue that the evolution of Curie’s status over time offers an opportunity to use meta-biography to understand the layered nature of her reputation. We draw on Gary Alan Fine’s theory of reputational entrepreneurship to understand her legacy as a product of collective historical memory. Curie’s legacy was not pre-determined by the fact that she was a successful scientist; in fact, she was shunned by the public in France in 1911 after it was revealed that she, a widow, had engaged in an affair with a fellow married scientist. A meta-biographical analysis reveals considerable effort was put into reputation building by her Curie herself, her commercial sponsor, and family members. To ignore the earlier iterations of her reputation is to underestimate the challenges she faced as a woman in male-dominated science and in a society that judged her by a sexual double standard. Meta-biography, in conjunction with theories of intellectual reputation building and collective memory, allows us to unearth the complicated layers of Curie’s story. It also tells us a great deal about the [sexist] society in which Curie and her supporters had to forge her reputation.

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居里夫人的照片：名誉企业家如何塑造偶像身份

居里夫人（Marie Curie）在科学界以及更广泛的文化想象力和集体记忆中都具有标志性的地位。居里夫人是第一位获得诺贝尔奖的女性，也是唯一两次获得此项殊荣的女性，被广泛誉为科学界的女性先驱，并被所有人，尤其是女性所效仿。她不仅是一位开创性的科学家，而且是一位虔诚的妻子和母亲，在她自己的孩子中培养了智力上的热情，她受到尊敬，其中一个成为第二位获得诺贝尔科学奖的女性。我们呼应Eva Hemmungs Wirten的观点，认为居里的身份随着时间的演变提供了使用元传记来了解其声誉的分层本质的机会。我们借鉴加里·艾伦·芬（Gary Alan Fine）的声誉创业理论，将她的遗产理解为集体历史记忆的产物。居里夫人的遗产并不以她是一位成功的科学家这一事实为前提。实际上，在1911年她被遗弃与同胞已婚科学家有染之后，在法国遭到了公众的回避。一次元传记分析表明，居里夫人，她的商业赞助商和家庭成员为建立声誉付出了巨大的努力。无视她的声誉的早期变化，是低估了她在男性主导的科学领域以及以性双重标准判断她的社会中作为女性所面临的挑战。元传记结合智力声誉建立和集体记忆理论，让我们发掘居里故事的复杂层面。这也告诉我们有关[性]社会的很多信息，居里夫妇及其支持者必须在这个社会中树立自己的声誉。