Irène Joliot-Curie

Marie Curie was a remarkable woman. She overcame adversity to become one of the most accomplished scientists today. Without this scientist the fight against cancer or something as simple as getting an x-ray would not be what it is today. Her research has helped to save the lives of millions. In order to accomplish everything she did (Founder of Curic Instutes, winner of two Nobel Prizes, discovering two new chemical elements) being a woman in a time where women were considered to be second class…

some scientific training from her father. She soon found in necessary to leave Poland and head to Paris to continue her studies. Marie studied at the Sorbonne where she obtained licentiateships in Physics and Mathematical Sciences. She met Pierre Curie who was a professor in the school of Physics, and he became her husband one year after. She performed much research with her husband, much of it in very difficult conditions with poor laboratory arrangements, ultimately to isolate the unknown…

“Well-behaved women seldom make history” are you agree or disagree? Throughout the recorded history the condition of women has been a constant fee. Whether it a social status, economic state, political position, or intellectual freedom. Women have always tipped-off to address this issues to find the solution and change the history. But there are women who risk their own lives and fought for the ideas that today most of us recognized as universal and whether we realize or not and one way or…

The people whom we want to be are often not the people we are. In fact, we are molded by so many things in the society around us that our true nature gets lost early on. As people, events, and objects influence and change us, we often drift far from the actual person we are. In times of conflict when we lose so many of these objects we thought had molded us; that is when we discover who we truly are. In All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr proves that in times of conflict, the true…

Annie Jump Cannon was an American astronomer and physicist who was born on December 11, 1863, in Dover, Delaware. Although she became deaf early on in life, her mother encouraged Cannon to pursue her passion for astronomy. Cannon attended Wellesley College and eventually graduated as a valedictorian during a time when there were limited opportunities for women in the field of academics, mainly science. She continued her post-graduate studies at Radcliffe College, which allowed her to gain access…

Women have always played significant roles in science for all of history and contributed to advancing the world to how we know it today. Women have various roles in science and have participated in making groundbreaking discoveries. However, throughout history many women have been seen as only assistants to their male colleagues and have not been given full credit for their achievements. This situation is one that is seen in the film “Contact”, where the main character, Dr. Ellie Arroway, is an…

Pierre was a fellow scientist that Marie had worked with for a few years. After working together for that time Marie started to develop feelings for Pierre and he started to do the same. Marie and Pierre later got married in 1985. Marie Curie also made quite a few accomplishments in her lifetime. One day, she was working with some Uranium and noticed that the substance inside was way more magnetic than the Uranium. Marie took the stuff that was on the inside and took it out of the Uranium…

His student Marie Curie discovered that only certain chemical elements gave off these rays of energy and named this radioactivity. Although Becquerel called this radioactivity, Curie later coined the term “radiation”. She’d be the first to work with radioactive materials and also later discover other radioactive elements such as thorium, polonium, and…

Lise Meitner, a woman physicist who had worked and studied radioactivity and nuclear fission. Meitner’s way of working and studying led to the “radiochemical discovery” of nuclear fission. Her achievement was rewarded with a Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1944. Meitner is often used as an example of a scientific women who was “overlooked by the Nobel committee”. Lise Meitner demonstrates the arduous work she had to do in order to discover her accomplishment which in this case is the discoverment…

changing the way we look at treatment. From starting back in 1895 as a new ray that could pass through substances to going on to be used in the military by Marie Curie for find bullets and fragments of bombs in wounded soldiers to finally being used in medicine like it is today. With the help of Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen and Marie Curie we now have a new and more versatile way of looking at treatment, and can help out more people than we did before the discovery of radioactive elements that led…