Pierre Curie

I found that this novel was quite unique in that it laid out a detailed examination of the history of cancer and how treatments were created, along with a detailed description of the author’s personal experience during the early days of oncology. The author of Emperor of all Maladies: A Biology of Cancer, Siddhartha Mukherjee, was able to lay out all of the aspects of cancer and the battle of trying to treat, prevent, and cure it. Since the 1800s, doctors have been pushing and hoping for a…

the dark. The roots of these unique roses have been extended through the worlds of the arts, the fields of sports, the labs of science, and the innovations of technology defying any challenges. Women like Frida Kahlo, Beyoncé, Jaide Bucher, Marie Curie, and Carol Shaw have proved to be capable of achieving anything they propose, making it clear that they were meant to be prominent in such a diverse world. There was once a picture that portrayed women as…

Europe and North America in the 19th Century The 19th Century was widely known for its industrial and scientific discoveries and advancements. However, that is not all to be known. Advancements were not only known in science and technologies, but also in the rights of individuals and workers. 4,340 miles exist between the United States and Great Britain, however the relationships between them both seem neighboring. Both the US and Europe emerged becoming the world’s leading powers in military,…

hobby. While just about every boy goes through chemistry phase, David’s love for chemistry surpassed the short-lived phases of others. If there was one story in the Golden Book that influenced him the most, it was definitely the story of Marie and Pierre…

Dalton Ellis Adv. Chemistry Mr. Lawson 6th 1/05/16 Reading Assignment I choose The Disappearing Spoon, by Sam Kean because I read short reviews on all the books on the reading list, and this one seemed the most interesting. After doing some research on the boom I found that it had great reviews online, and was one of the top ten most recommended books in the chemistry genre. This book caught my attention because it gave a brief history of many of the elements, and I was keen to learn how to…

“New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings,” said Lao Tzu, a famous philosopher and poet in China history. Through the conception of Tzu, early stages always contain many struggles, but if people go through it, they will see the glory at the end. Tzu’s perception is familiar Jarvis’s concept, “small is the new big,” in his book “What Would Google do?” Google used to be an idea, then moved on to a small company and finally become a giant technology industry. Not only Google started…

Hmmm, I wonder if there is a way to create an ultrasound machine that could create 3D images. Kazunori Baba, M.D., Ph.D. thought to himself one day. For a time Kazunori Baba has been realizing the benefits of such a machine. He thinks to himself, the benefits of a 3D ultrasound would be monumental, my expecting mothers could not only see their babies in real time, but as a doctor I would also be able to better see the babies and find any possible birth defects before the delivery. But will there…

Nuclear energy is the energy released during nuclear fission or fusion. Nuclear fission is a nuclear reaction in which a heavy nucleus splits spontaneously or on impact with another particle, with the release of energy. Nuclear fusion on the contrary is the exact opposite; it gathers energy from the heavy nucleus combining with the shot particle. These two combined produce a lot of energy that is used all over the world on a daily basis. Nuclear power has proved to serve a huge part of our…

Nuclear energy has always been known for the dangers associated with it. Radiation, first discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie, are penetrating rays and particles emitted by a radioactive substance. These penetrating rays can damage human cells, making them dangerous to human’s health. After one of the strongest earthquakes in recorded history, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake, hit Japan on March 11th, 2011. It was followed by a tsunami with waves reaching over 40.5 meters. The tsunami caused three…

Radium 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…