Marie Sklodowska was born in Warsaw, modern day Poland, on November 7, 1867. Her parents were both teachers, and she was the youngest of five siblings, Zosia, Józef, Bronya, and Hela. As a child Curie was said to take after her father, Wladyslaw, a math and physics instructor. She was a bright child and excelled at school. But when she was only 10, Curie lost her mother, Bronislawa, to tuberculosis. Marie received a general education in local schools and some scientific training from her father. She was a top student in her secondary school, but Curie could not attend the men-only University of Warsaw. She instead continued her education in Warsaw's "floating university," a set of underground, informal classes held in secret. Her and her sister both longed to earn an official degree but lacked the financial …show more content…
She is the most famous female scientist of all time, and has received numerous posthumous honors. To date, Curie is the only woman to win two Nobel Prizes, but her second win set her apart as the only scientist, of either gender, to win two Nobel Prize awards. Marie paved the road for future female scientists, of the 357 people who have ever won a STEM-related Nobel Prize, only 16 of them have been female. In 1995, her and her husband's remains were interred in the Panthéon in Paris, the final resting place of France's greatest minds. Curie became the first and only woman to be laid to rest there. Curie also passed down her love and understanding of science to the next generation. Her daughter Irène Joliot-Curie followed in her mother's footsteps, winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935. Joliot-Curie shared this honor with her husband, Frédéric Joliot, for their work on their synthesis of new radioactive elements. Even today several educational, research institutions, and medical centers use the Curie name, including the Institut Curie and the Pierre and Marie Curie University, both can be found in
The only awards Sophie received were: the contest she entered about Archimedes, an honorary degree six years after her death, to be able to be the first women to attend Academie des Sciences meetings, and first woman invited to attend sessions at the Institut de France. Many of Sophie’s achievements were recognized after she died.
Over 6,000,000 died and only 900,000 survived. The Holocaust is one of the darkest moments in world history. Hitler was a German dictator who wanted to create a supreme race; blue eyes and blonde hair were some of the requirements. Because the majority of Jews did not fit that description, they were targeted. Thousands of them were sent to concentration camps to die, while others were arrested and killed. In an attempt to save as many lives as possible, many people hid Jewish refugees during the Holocaust. Three individuals who did this are Irena Sendler, Karolina Juszczykowska, and Raoul Wallenberg.
Daly was brought up in a family that valued education, her father had emigrated from the West Indies and enrolled at Cornell University to study chemistry, unfortunately he had to drop out due to a lack of money. Daly attended Queens College in Flushing, New York, she then utilised a combination of a job as a lab assistant and a hard earned fellowship to enable her to complete her graduate degree at New York University.
She excelled in scientific subjects versus subject such as language and philosophy. In 1966, she completed her baccalauréat degree and was undecided on which subject she would study for her university study medicine or biomedical sciences. Opting to go to the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Paris to obtain her undergraduate degree. The ultimate reasoning for choosing the Natural Science degree was that it was shorter and would be less expensive than a Medical degree. This decision was necessary so she wouldn't burden her family with further unnecessary expenses to support her during her
Dr. Sonya Kovalevsky was known and praised for being the first major woman mathematician, first woman granted professorship in Northern Europe. This, during the time of the mid to late 1800s, was catastrophic to the women of sciences as it provided hope to them that their optimism of being recognized
Marie Curie was an spectacular at her studies when she was younger. Being born in Poland, opportunities for studies were limited so she went to Paris. After working as a governess, she studied in Sorbonne, Paris. She struggled to learn in French, so she studied more and more. She eventually got a degree in physics and finished at the top of her school. After that she got a degree in math. In Paris,she met Pierre Curie who was the chief of a laboratory. He was a renowned chemist. Pierre liked young Marie and asked her to marry him. He sure had to beg and finally, she relented. She discovered two elements in her studies radium and polonium. Radium made x-rays, which helped in world war 1 and are still used today. Marie later died from cancer because of her studies with radium.
Sophie could not study her parents would do anything just to stop her like turning down warm clothes and a fire for her bedroom just to keep her from studying, but Sophie was not going to let them stop her from getting her education so you know what she did? As soon as her parents left her alone she would take out candles, wrap herself into the covers and start doing mathematics. No one had to tell her to go read a book, go learn something, go do some homework or put her by the table just to do some problems she did it on her own in my generation you were cursed if you like math or anything that had to do with school period we would cry just to hear the word homework or math but Sophie loved to do math and she did everything she could she even wrote an essay about the fact that being a young lady she could not get an education or career. I think that was good she never stopped trying she never gave up on something that she wanted in life she keep fighting she was an independent person. Before her death 27 June 1831 Gauss had recommended that she be awarded an honorary degree, but that never occurred. At the centenary of her life, a street and a girl's school were named after her. The Academy of Sciences established the Sophie Germain Prize in her
BOLDFlash’s Mobile Division is a cross-functional team. The cross-functional team will encourage diversity of opinion with a wide range of skills. The Internal Business Process Artifact give an impression that, the business processes are not well discussed and planned between other departments and each department works like a silo building. The departments which are working as a silo building will fail to collaborate with other departments and become inaccessible to other departments. The poor accessibility and poor communication between department result in duplicate efforts and it will affect the quality and productivity of the workforce.
Sophie of Anhalf-Zerbst was born on May 2, 1729 in the Germany city of Stettin (Szczecin, now Poland). She was born of a minor German prince, into a society that legally separated and isolated its female population. Though society was against her she was recognized by her father for her great ability to learn and remember concepts and ideas. After proving her ideas and abilities, she received a formal education. In 1744, at the age of 14, she married the Grand Duke Peter of Holstein who was heir to the Russian throne . Although Sophie was German she strove to be as Russian as her mother in-law. Sophie not only studied the Russian language, but she also took the name of Catherine II to honour her mother who was also named Catherine.
She dropped what research she was doing so that she could assist in any way she could. Not too long earlier, construction on the Radium Institute, a place where Curie and her peers could study the effects of radiation. At the start of World War One, most of her friends and coworkers had been drafted to fight in the war. Curie realized that the x-rays could help save lives by allowing doctors to see bullets and shrapnel lodged deep under the skin. After much convincing, she got France’s first military radiology centers set up. Curie was appointed Director of the Red Cross Radiology Service, and not long after started accepting money from rich supporters to fund the department. She asked for body shops and manufacturers to donate cars and parts to help speed things
Wislawa Szymborska is a Nobel laureate in literature who was born in Poland in 1923. This means that for the majority of Szymborska’s twenties World War II was not only happening, but she was in the center of the war while living in Poland. Many of Germany’s concentration camps were located in Poland. Spending much of her young life in a war torn country definitely affected Wislawa Szymborska, which can be seen in many of her poems. One poem of Wislawa Szymborska’s that shows this influence from her life is Hitler’s First Photograph. Unlike some of her other poems relating to the war, this poem focuses on what the leader of Nazi Germany, Adolph Hitler, who is known for trying to exterminate the Jewish people, was like when he was a baby. Szymborska uses unanswered questions, diction, and very descriptive imagery in Hitler’s First Photograph to show that everyone, even Adolph Hitler, is innocent when they are born.
Capitalism is “a system of economic enterprise based on market exchange” (Giddens, 2009). Almost all industrial societies today are capitalistic in nature since their economic structures are based on free enterprise and market competition. However, capitalism first became the dominant mode of production over two centuries ago in Western society. Over this period, there have been some major theorists who have attempted to analyse capitalism and among these theorists are Karl Marx and Max Weber. Notwithstanding the obvious differences between Marx and Weber’s approach to capitalism, particularly with regards to the content of their analyses, their appraisal of capitalism is attached to a critical position (Craib, 1997). Both Marx and Weber agreed on the uniqueness of capitalism as an economic system. A system where: relations of production were concentrated in the hands of a rather small sector of the population; labour was performed by the masses of workers selling their services on a market; efficiency became a priority through which rationality and technological advancement were applied over religious and traditional values; and the critical goal at the end of economic behaviour was unrestricted wealth acquisition i.e. maximum profit (Birnbaum, 1953). It could not simply be simply treated as just a new economic system but a revolutionary mode of production which involved a new type of society.
Maria Montessori was considered ahead of her time. She was born in Chiaravalle, in the province of Ancona, Italy in 1870 to an educated but not wealthy family. Despite her father's wishes and society's conservative ways at the time, she studied science. She was the first female physician in Italy when she graduated medical school in 1896. She worked mostly with the poor because she saw vast potential in them. She was an unselfish person and she traveled Italy speaking of women's rights and child labor law reforms. Not too long after graduating she was chosen to represent Italy in two different women's conferences. They were at Berlin in 1896 and also in London in 1900. Maria was appointed a professor of anthropology at the University of
Marie Curie was born, Maria Sklodowska on November 7, 1867. She grew up in Warsaw, Poland. She would become famous for her research on radioactivity. Marie Curie was the first woman to ever win a Nobel prize, and the first ever to win two Nobel prizes. She is most famous for the discovery of Radium and Polonium. Her work not only influenced the development of fundamental science, but also began a new era in medical research and treatment.
Marie Curie LIFE OF MARIE CURIE Marie Curie(1867-1934) was a French physicist with many accomplishments in both physics and chemistry. Marie and her husband Pierre, who was also a French physicist, are both famous for their work in radioactivity. Marie Curie, originally named Marja Sklodowska, was born in Warsaw, Poland on Nov.7, 1867. Her first learning of physics came from her father who taught it in high school. Marie's father must have taught his daughter well because in 1891, she went to Paris(where she changed her original name) and enrolled in the Sorbonne.