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    The first woman to win a noble prize for not just Physics but Chemistry too, would have a dramatic impact on the world as we know it today. Marie Salomea Sklodowska was a polish scientist, born on November 7, 1867 in Warsaw, Congress Kingdom of Poland, Russia. Marie’s mother, Bronislawa, and father, Wladyslaw, were both teachers and wanted Marie to have an education. During school when Marie became fascinated with the art of science Marie’s parents were extremely encouraging and supportive.…

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    Marie Salomea Sklodowska, other wise known as Marie Curie. Marie Curie was a french woman who worked in physics and chemistry. Marie is the most famous for her work with radioactivity, and the discovery of Polonium and Radium. Marie Curie was born November 7, 1867 in Warsaw, Poland. She is the daughter of Wladyslaw and Bronislava, who were both teachers. (Famous Scientists) Marie was the youngest of five children. As she grew up, she faced many obstacles such as, her family did not have a lot…

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    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 radium. In 1901 within months of studying…

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    and math. Shortly after, the Society for the Encouragement of National Industry paid her to study the magnetic properties of steel, where she met her lab partner and future husband, Pierre Curie. Fascinated with the work of fellow physicist, Henri Becquerel, and the study of…

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    Marie Curie Research Paper

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    Marie Curie was an exceptional transformational leader who was ahead of her time. She was a trailblazer in the field of radioactivity and inspired entire generations of female scientists. In my undergraduate career, I earned a Bachelor of Science in Physics and a second Bachelor of Science in Math. As a woman, I always looked up to Marie Curie and what she represented. She overcame adversity and went above and beyond in her pursuits in science. Learning about her academic and personal…

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    Small: The Atomic Theory

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    How big is ‘small’? Is it a grain of sand, a speck of dirt, a strand of hair, a drop of water? Is it the size of what humans can see, with our own two eyes? Is ‘small’ bigger than that? Or is it much, much less? For years, people tried to discover the definition of small for the scientific world. Does ‘small’ act the same way as ‘big’? Can the movements of ‘small’ be described and categorized? All of these questions were analyzed over and over by scientist for hundreds of years, to form what is…

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    He placed the crystal onto a photographic plate and exposed it to the rays. Becquerel hypothesized that the sunlight absorbed by the crystal was released as x-rays and would leave and image on the plate. Having to leave the experiment for a few days, because of inclimate weather, Becquerel came back to the experiment and saw that a clear image was printed on the plate even though there was no sunlight to stimulate the crystal. He…

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    An Argument's Stasis Map

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    In this stasis map paper there is four parts of an argument that will be discussed.This argument process was developed by Aristotle and Hermogenes, in ancient Greece.The four parts are conjecture, definition, quality and policy. Conjecture is the cause and the effect of an argument.Definition is the “What is the nature of the problem/issue?What exactly is the problem/issue?What kind of a problem/issue is it?To what larger class of things or events does it belong? What are its parts, and how are…

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    Uranium Paetyn Blockhus Why do you think people thought when they first discovered uranium? The warfare has changed when uranium was introduced. The discovery of radioactivity and other things in uranium has been discovered over the years. The size and weight of uranium is one of its many characteristics. The world had changed when they started using and mining uranium. The fun facts of uranium are truly surprising. Uranium is an…

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    Gallium scans, Gastric Emptying, MUGA scans, and Spect Brain scans are just a few of the scans that were formed, thanks to the nuclear medicine of today. In 1896, a man by the name of Henri Becquerel discovered that uranium penetrating rays were similar to X-rays. This leads to other numerous discovers like the finding of elements polonium and radium, to the cyclotron invented by Ernest Lawrence that included the ability to produce radioisotopes of different elements. This leads to 1946, where…

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