Marie Curie Essay

Marjane Satrapi’s autobiographical graphic novel, Persepolis, tells the story of the author’s childhood and early teenage years before, during, and after the Islamic Revolution. The novel depicts how the revolution dramatically impacts Satrapi’s life as Iran transforms from a relatively progressive society, under the absolute leadership of the Shah, to a society governed by Islamic fundamentalists. But Satrapi’s graphic novel is more than a coming of age narrative; it is also a rebuttal against…

idea of going to space instantly captivated these children. Outer space entices human curiosity. Curiosity and the desire for knowledge and understanding is what sets humans apart from other species. The same curiosity that drove scientists like Marie Curie and Albert Einstein drives many to dream of space exploration. However, not all people share this intense desire for knowledge and inquiry, and that is not the only concern…

World War 1 is one of the bloodiest wars in American history as we lost over 32,710 soldiers in battle (WWI). From poison gas to machine guns, from airplanes to tanks their were people dying left and right in this war. With the medical procedures and medicine we have, I am sure that more than half of those soldiers could have been saved. World War One laid the groundwork for the medical field to advance into what it is today. World War One medical care was based off the French and the British,…

I will concede not everyone is destined to be the next Christopher Columbus, Marie Curie, or J. Robert Oppenheimer. Some people are content in recognizing that there are oddities in this world, but do not feel drawn to discover the truth behind them and make them normalcies. However, you would be hard pressed to find someone that does not fall into the second category of queer desire. The desire to experience the world from another person’s perspective. Even Bob Dylan sings, “I wish that for…

The husband and wife team of Pierre and Marie Curie became interested in Becquerel’s discovery (The Discovery of Radioactivity). While experimenting with their own uranium-containing ore, they came up with the term "radioactivity" to describe the spontaneous emissions that they studied (The Discovery…

Radiation Therapy What is Radiation Therapy? Radiation therapy is one of the most common, innovative and successful forms of cancer treatments of the modern world. It can successfully treat and cure approximately 50 unique forms of cancer1, utilizing alpha, beta and gamma radiation to destroy or damage cancer cells2. This helps prevent the rapid multiplication of the destructive cells, with minimal impact upon the somatic cells surrounding the cancerous area, and treats both primary, and…

If happiness is the highest good then no one would make any decisions that do not bring him happiness. In addition, life goal is a goal that one believes it is worth to spend his life to achieve. For example, in history many scientists such as Marie Curie contribute their whole lives to science. A single person can have more than one life goals and the goals are variable. To find a meaningful goal one has to spend many years accumulating different experiences, and…

and Uranium, caused photographic plates to darken. Becquerel and his assistant, Villard, demonstrated that the photographic darkening on the plates was caused by beta radiation, alpha particles, and gamma rays. That same year, in 1896, Pierre and Marie Curie, the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize, coined the term “radioactivity” and were able to isolate the elements Polonium and Radium, later used for medical treatment, from pitchblende. A couple years later, in 1898, Samuel Prescott…

Sam Kean, a Washington D.C. writer with works in The New York Times Magazine, Mental Floss, Slate, The Believer, Air & Space, Science, and The New Scientist, has created a user-friendly book about how to explain the periodic table and the elements that occupy it by writing the book The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love and the History of the World From the Periodic Table of Elements. He provides an insight into the world of chemistry that relates to his audience, even…

2.4 Medical Science It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has. – Hippocrates (460-377 BC), the ancient Greek physician – considered as one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine and, often referred to as the ‘Father of Medicine’ Visualize a chip that is implemented in the brain, which processes images from an artificial retina grafted in the eye and restores the vision of a blind person. Visualize a…