Maria Sklodowska Curie was a Polish born, French scientist. She had a natural love for physics and math. She is well known for her discovery of radium and polonium. That and her big addition to the fight of cancer and discovery of radioactivity. Marie wasn’t only the first woman to get a nobel prize, but the first person to win two nobel prizes. Marie wasn’t only known for these things but her breaking many gender barriers in her 67 years of life. Marie ended up being the first ever woman to get a PhD from a French University and the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris. She passed away on July 4th, 1934, at the age 67. Marie Curie’s life was full of
Maria Sklodowska was born in Warsaw, Poland on November 7th, 1867.
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Three years down the road, Marie was desperately in need of a laboratory to work on her research project on metal mixtures. Someone suggested a lab and this led Marie to Pierre Curie, at the School of Physics and Chemistry, at the University of Paris. In 1895, Pierre and Marie ended up getting married. These two getting married began the most incredible partnership in science, in some people’s opinion. In 1897, Curie had made many accomplishments in her education. She had two university degrees, a scholarship, and a published paper on magnetization of tempered steel. Pierre and Marie’s first daughter, Irene, was born September 12, 1897, around this time the Curies’ faced their attention towards radiation from Uranium, which had been recently discovered Antoine Henri Becquerel. It was Marie’s thoughts that the radiation was an atomic property and it had to be found in other elements. Marie invented the word “Radioactivity” ( the automatic release of radium ). While Marie was looking for other sources of radioactivity, she started focusing more pitchblende, a mineral known for its uranium content. To their vast surprise the radioactivity of pitchblende far surpassed the combined radioactivity of the uranium and thorium contained in it. From Marie and Pierre’s lab (a shack they worked out of), two papers reached the Academy of Sciences within 6 months. The first one
People discussed in the book includes those such as scientist Marie Curie whose discovery of Radium,almost ruined her career, and the writer Mark Twain, whose short story Sold to Satan featured a devil who was made of radium and wore a suit made of . Also discussed is Maria Goeppert-Mayer, a German-born American who earned a Nobel Prize in Physics for her groundbreaking work, yet continually faced opposition due to her gender.
Many women scientist upheld and defended their positions as learned, scientific individuals. Marie Meurdrac, a French scientist, in a foreword to a publication stated clearly that women’s and men’s minds, if thought in the same manner would hold no difference.(Doc 2) Similarly, Dorothea Erxleben understood and explained why men and women alike look down on her for studying science because they feel that it is an insult.(Doc 9) Her experiences as a female scientist led her to truly grasp why her persecutors acted as they did towards her although this document shows no signs that she thinks the same. Maria Sibylla Merian, a German entomologist, discussed some of her scientific practices that encompass her dedication and fascination with science.(Doc 5) Another example of this whole-hearted dedication comes from Marquis...
This uneasiness is a result of events over the past one hundred years showing the dangers of radiation. Although most accidents today leading to death from radiation poisoning occur from human error or faults in equipment, the incident involving the now named "radium girls" transpired from lack of public awareness and safety laws. (introduce topics of the paper) The Radium Luminous Material Corporation was founded in 1914 (renamed in 1921 to the United States Radium Corporation) by Dr. Sabin Arnold von Sochocky and Dr. George S. Willis becoming the first U.S. company to produce radioluminescent paint. The paint used by this particular company was the trademarked "Undark", invented by William J. Hammered through mixing radium, zinc sulfide and glue with the help of Marie and Pierre Currie and Henri Becquerel.
One of the strongest women scientist/astronomer was born in 1818 as Maria Mitchell whom led an unbelievable life and had an incredible discovery. Maria Mitchell was born when women were not given the opportunity to vote nor did women have the same equal rights as men did, but given her circumstances of her father being a principal, founding his own school and being a distant family member of Benjamin Franklin she was given the same rights as the men did. Given a few obstacles she led an extraordinary life and became the first woman in America to work as an astronomer professionally, which she than later received an award personally from King Frederick VII, for her work and discovery.
Her hypothesis was this: The emission of rays from Uranium compounds could be an atomic property of the element Uranium-something built into the very structure of the atoms. During Marie's time, the atom was thought to be the smallest particle in existence.... ... middle of paper ... ...
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, also known as HeLa is credited for the huge advancements in the medical industry such as for polio, cancer, and many viruses
The chapter starts out by describing how Marie and Pierre Curie made if not one of the best collaborations that science has ever seen due to their various
Marie Curie (1898-1934): Marie Curie was a Polish physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. In 1903, she shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband, and in 1911 won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and only woman to win the Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences. Through her experiments she developed the theory of radioactivity and techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes, as well as discovering two new elements: radium and polonium.
When most people think of the Scientific Revolution, they think of scientists such as Galileo, Newton, Brahe, and Boyle. However, many people do not even know about the many women who played a vital role in the scientific advancements of this period. Even when these women were alive, most of society either ignored them or publicly disapproved their unladylike behavior. Because of this, these women were often forgotten from history, and very little is known about the majority of them. Although their names rarely appear in history books, the female scientists of the Scientific Revolution still impacted the world of science in several ways. In fact, all of the scientists listed above had a woman playing an influential role assisting them in their research. However, assisting men in their studies was not the only role open to women; several women performed experimentation and research on their own, or advancing science in some other way, even though the society of the time looked down upon and even resisted their studies.
Marie Curie was one of the shy girls, but yet one of the most famous scientists in the world. She could care less about the money, the fame, and the attention, science and research are the only things she thought about. She never did understand why people were so interested in her, her discoveries, why her?
What is the most important scientist in human history? Some people many instantly think of Albert Einstein who is famous for his work with the theory of relativity. Or of Isaac Newton who came up with the theory of gravity. Few will think of Marie Currie for her work with radioactivity or of Rosaline Franklin who discovered that DNA was shaped in a double healix. These women’s work are immensely important. Without their work in the field we would know significantly less about radioactivity and the structure of DNA. Since these women’s work drastically changed and improved science then why aren’t more girls choosing career paths in STEM fields?
Uranium, a radioactive element, was first mined in the western United States in 1871 by Dr. Richard Pierce, who shipped 200 pounds of pitchblende to London from the Central City Mining District. This element is sorta boring but I found something interesting, they used it to make an an atomic bomb in the Cold War. In 1898 Pierre and Marie Curie and G. Bemont isolated the "miracle element" radium from pitchblende. That same year, uranium, vanadium and radium were found to exist in carnotite, a mineral containing colorful red and yellow ores that had been used as body paint by early Navajo and Ute Indians on the Colorado Plateau. The discovery triggered a small prospecting boom in southeastern Utah, and radium mines in Grand and San Juan counties became a major source of ore for the Curies. It was not the Curies but a British team working in Canada which was the first to understand that the presence of polonium and radium in pitchblende was not due to simple geological and mineral reasons, but that these elements were directly linked to uranium by a process of natural radioactive transmutation. The theory of radioactive transformation of elements was brilliantly enlarge in1901 by the New Zealand physicist Ernest Rutherford and the English chemist Frederick Soddy at McGill University in Montreal. At dusk on the evening of November 8, 1895, Wilhelm Rontgen, professor of physics at the University of Wurzburg in Germany, noticed a cathode tube that a sheet of paper come distance away. He put his hand between the tube and the paper, he saw the image of the bones in his hand on the paper.
Sophie Germain was a French mathematician, a philosopher, and a physicist born during the revolution period. During this time woman did not have the right to do as much things as men did. Her family was wealthy but she had to work harder to be recognized as a mathematician being she was a girl. She studied acoustics, elasticity, and the theory of numbers. Sophie struggled with being these things because of the social prejudices during this time.
That same year Marie met Pierre Curie, an aspiring French physicist. A year later Maria Sklodowska became Madame Curie. Marie and Pierre worked as a scientific team, in 1898 their achievements resulted in world importance, in particular the discovery of polonium (which Marie named in honor of Poland) and the discovery of Radium a few months later. The birth of her two daughters, Irene and Eve, in 1897 and 1904 did not interrupt Maria's work. In 1903, Curie became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize for Physics. The award jointly awarded to Curie, her husband Pierre, and Henri Becquerel, was for the discovery of radioactivity. In December 1904 she was appointed chief assistant in the laboratory directed by Pierre Curie.
The impact of nuclear power on the modern world has improved Various sectors of the economy and society .i.e. Food and Agriculture, Insect control, Food Preservation, Water Resources, Military, Medicine, Research and Industry. “In 1911 George de Hevesy conducted the first application of a radioisotope. At the time de Hevesy was a young Hungarian student working in Manchester with naturally radioactive materials. Not having much money he lived in modest accommodation and took his meals with his landlady. He began to suspect that some of the meals that appeared regularly might be made from leftovers from the preceding days or even weeks, but he could never be sure. To try and confirm his suspicions de Hevesy put a small amount of radioactive material into the remains of a meal. Several days later when the same dish was served again he used a simple radiation detection instrument - a gold leaf electroscope - to check if the food was radioactive. It was, and de Hevesy's suspicions were confirmed.