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Rosalind Franklin died at the young age of 37 due to extreme exposure to radiation over time. Franklin was described as taking on the strong traits of the Franklin women, she was creative and well driven. Both her mom and dad’s side of the family had very strong willed women, who believed it was important to get an education. Franklin’s family played a large role in her desire to excel in everything she did, especially her love for science. She attended St. Paul’s Girls’ School in London for grade

A third book that attempts to fix the “leaky pipeline” is Marie Curie (Giants of Science) by Kathleen Krull. This book walks the reader through the life of the famous scientist Marie Curie, who conducted research on radioactivity throughout her years as a chemist. It focuses a lot on her personal life, which included multiple periods of depression. One of the ways she would get out of her sadness is by conducting research and studying. Krull explains how “Yet her sadness was eventually lifted, perhaps

My paper is about Irene Joliot – Curie the Nobel – Peace Prize winner that created the first artificial radioactive element. Her life was very successful and fulfilling. Irene’s life was very successful, because she accomplished many things and inspired future scientist. Her and her mom’s work was very useful in World War I. Her work with radiation also became very important to new discoveries of atoms. Irene was born in Paris France on September 12, 1897. Her parents were Pierre and Marie Curie

Although Marie Curie was not the first woman to excel in science or mathematics, she can be considered the first major woman scientist to receive full credit for her scientific work. Considering her Nobel prizes alone, she is ranked at the top of the scientists of the modern period. Despite this, somehow Marie Curie’s popular images, as well as those embedded in some of the scholarly literature, suggest important, but rather modest contributions to society (Pycior, 301). Marie Curie was born Maria

of a luminescent material, radium, arrived on the scene to the delight of a fascinated and eager public. At first, it seemed to be a miracle remedy, not just harmless but even beneficial. However, when a multitude of watch dial painters were exposed to this substance on an extremely consistent basis, the negative effects began bubbling to the surface. These “Radium Girls” were unknowingly consuming a potentially lethal substance and would be the first victims of radium poisoning and radioactivity

since the Earth's beginning. Each of these approaches yielded estimates that the Earth was anywhere from 24 to 100 million years old. The pioneering work of Becquerel in 1896 (the discovery of uranium), and the Curies (who subsequently discovered radium and polonium and the energy and heat given off by these new elements which they called radioactivity) led to the remarkable work of Ernest Rutherford. He was a physicist, whose experiments showed that some heavier elements spontaneously changed or

Throughout watching the play These Shinning Lives I gathered information about the radium poisoning happening in the 1920s. When Catherine Donahue says her first line that this play is neither a comedy or a tragedy; I was somewhat taken back by this because the play describes four women who get extremely sick from radium poisoning. Each of the girls experience different side effects from the radium, but the play further explains Catherine’s side effect which was ultimately death. Therefore, I believe

Marie Curie’s discovery of Radium was a pivotal step for women scientists and also equal rights for women. As we saw in the movie, Madame Curie, Marie was the only girl in her science class. Pierre even looked down on her when she first began to work with him. In that day in age Marie faced many challenges because one she was a woman and she was in a field of mostly men. Marie was not treated fairly in the very beginning of the film because of her sex. Throughout the film we she Marie begin

were the ones who discovered Radium in 1898. Marie Curie noticed that the unrefined pitchblende was more radioactive than the uranium extracted from it. That meant that the pitchblende must contain one other radioactive element. One ton of pitchblende contains about 0.14 grams of radium. Curie refined tons of pitchblende just to get a very miniscule amount of radium. The symbol for radium is Ra. The name Radium comes from the Latin word radius, which means ray. Radium is located in the second group

Amelia Maggia was 21 when she went to work at the U.S Radium Corporation factory. She worked at the factory for four years before she had to quit, due to health problems. She had gradually contracted symptoms such as anemia, joint pains, and weight loss. A few months later, on September 12, 1922, at the age of 25, she died. Her death certificate read “ulcerative stomachitis.” But when four other dial-painters died in the following years, and as many more, including Amelia’s two sisters, contracted