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Women played a vital role in evolution of the Enlightenment Era. The women of the Enlightenment were the creators of feminism, they gave birth to the Women Liberation Movement. Female activists like Mary Wollstonecraft and Olympe de Gouges broke ground for modern feminists like Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman Hughes. To this day women are still fighting to break the glass ceilings holding them back, such as the current wage gap. Women of the enlightenment began the over three-hundred-year…

by Henri Becquerel (Nobelprize.org). Upon its discovery, scientists started experiments on it, eager to learn everything they could about it. Radiation was experimented with by numerous scientists, one of the most well known of these, being Madame Curie. She spent her life studying radium,…

Improves Transparency and Better Information Sharing with the American People (USA Freedom Act, 2015) • Created a panel of amicus curie at the FISA court to give information on matters of civil liberties • All laws to be made public • Robust Government Reporting • Technology companies will have options on how they give information due to national security needs 3. Strengthens National…

Nowadays, women still strenuously fight for themselves after decades of demanding their rights. The chief operating officer of Facebook Sheryl Sandberg tells her own story in “Lean in: What Would You Do If You Weren’t Afraid?” (“They say I say”) to demonstrate her view on women’s position in the workplace today. Although women are equal to men in society nationwide, women are limited in achieving all of their goals because they cannot overcome their numerous fears, do not have high ambition in…

I n 1898, the radioactive elements Radium and Polonium were found by Marie and Pierre Curie. Thus the concept of treating cancers was born. The Curie’s work on radiation led to the possibility of cancer treatment, but also provided a better understanding of the atom. That is that an atom has a nucleus at its centre with surrounding energy shells which consist of negatively charged electrons. The electron was discovered in 1897 by J.J. Tomson, and was the first proved element of the atom. The…

planet long before the appearance of life on it, every living organism contains traces of radioactive substances. But less than a century that mankind discovered this phenomenon by scientists like Henri Becquerel, Wilhelm Roentgen and Marie and Pierre Curie and others. In 1945 we can say that tragically began the "Nuclear Age" with the fall of the first atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. From there the certainty that nuclear bombs could destroy our civilization affects…

Irving Block (1910 -1986) and Allen Adler (1916 - 1964) wrote the story for Forbidden Planet. “They came up with the idea for something called Fatal Planet as a potential project for one of the B-movie studios” (TCM). Once the idea was pitched to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), they instantly realized the film’s potential went beyond the B-movie variety, “to everybody’s surprise, the studio decided to make this their first science fiction film and budgeted the film at $1 million, later expanding it…

Within the first few decades of the 20th century, the science of physics was completely reformed with new understandings of the nature of atoms. In 1898 France, Paris, Pierre and his wife Marie Curie discovered a new substance within an ore of Uranium that they named radium that emitted large amounts of (as we now call) radioactivity. Ernest Rutherford and Frederick Soddy Identified that atoms can break down and turn into different elements. For example if a block of uranium were left alone for…

very important to humanity for many reasons. Discovered about the same time as uranium in the 19th century, thorium has been well known to the scientific community for many years (World Nuclear Association). In fact, famous scientists like Marie Curie and Ernest Rutherford worked with the element in several experiments when nuclear decay was first being discovered. Since that time, however, thorium has largely been thrown by the wayside for use in practical applications such…

Wernher von Braun was born into a family of great wealth and intelligence, shaping his outlook for a career in science. Wernher’s interest in space began at a very young age, and he developed great skills from the schools he attended. He became a prominent figure worldwide because of his involvement with World War I and NASA. He helped the space travel industry in both Germany and the United States, making them some of the most technologically advanced countries. Wernher von Braun began his…