Marie Curie LIFE OF MARIE CURIE Marie Curie(1867-1934) was a French physicist with many accomplishments in both physics and chemistry. Marie and her husband Pierre‚ who was also a French physicist‚ are both famous for their work in radioactivity. Marie Curie‚ originally named Marja Sklodowska‚ was born in Warsaw‚ Poland on Nov.7‚ 1867. Her first learning of physics came from her father who taught it in high school. Marie’s father must have taught his daughter well because in 1891‚ she went
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world for the better by saving the lives of many WW1 soldiers using her x ray which she developed using one of radioactive materials that she discovered (Radium) And she founded many other things. This is the story of Marie Curie. The curies were inspired in their research by Henri becquerel for he discovered radioactivity that led the discover Radium and Polonium. By doing so she invented the x
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Brook’s interest in the sciences influenced her to get a master’s degree in physics in 1901‚ making her the first woman to receive a master’s degree at McGill University (Rayner-Canham). While getting her master’s degree‚ Brooks began working with radium‚ which had only been discovered a few years prior in 1898. After researching the emanation
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radiation within the safe dose range. There are two major methods of radiation treatment: 1/ Internal Radiation (a.k.a. radium implant‚ brachytherapy‚ or interstitual or intracavitary radiation) In this procedure the radiation oncologist places radioactive material (usually radium‚ cesium‚ or iridium)‚ into or onto the inflicted area. The purpose is to place the radioactive material as close to the tumor
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Abi Sivatharman Sister Cecilia AP Physics I 2015 David Hahn David Hahn was a typical seventeen year old boy scout who had grown up in the small town of Golf Manor‚ Michigan. It wasn’t until the day that suited men from the Environmental Protection Agency came to his house‚ raiding his makeshift lab in the backyard‚ for his self-deemed project to gain national recognition and reveal exactly what his obsession turned into- a homemade nuclear reactor. Since the early age of four‚ David Hahn began
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honesty and moderate life style. Although she was a women in a field of study dominated by men‚ she was the first women to be awarded not one but two Nobel Prizes‚ for isolating radium and one examining its chemical properties. With a feelings of obligation and responsibility she intentionally refused to patent any of her radium-isolation processes so that the world as a whole could benefit from her
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On 26 December 1898‚ they then discovered and announced the existence of another element‚ which they named "radium" due to its intense radioactivity. Marie Curie was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize in 1903 which she also shared with Becquerel and Pierre. Sadly on 19 April 1906 Pierre was walking across the Rue Dauphine and was struck by a horse-drawn
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The radium girls were women who painted radioactive paint on watch hands. As you can imagine‚ painting tiny watch hands was difficult‚ so‚ to keep their brushes thin‚ they would lick them getting radioactive paint on their lips and in their mouth. Later‚ they suffered from various health problems (those were radium watches‚ not the tritium watches used today. It was changed because‚ unlike tritium‚ radium decays into radon gas and is toxic to the bones)
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It had radioactive properties. Radium‚ like x-rays‚ was adopted for many industrial uses. For example‚ workers in the 1910s and 1920s painted watch dials with radium so that it could be able to glow in the dark (Dixon). Currently‚ with the system of storing‚ the government just wants to have it be stored underground. It is starting to get overcrowded
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The Marcellus Shale formation is located in Pennsylvania‚ New York‚ Ohio and West Virginia. This land is very popular because of its tight‚ deep shale formations which have the potential to hold a lot of natural gas. The Marcellus Shale is large and covers a widespread amount of land area in the Northeastern United States. Researchers say that there is a potential for the Marcellus Shale formation to hold around 500 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in its shale deposits deep beneath the earth’s
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