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revolving around the treatments Henrietta receives in the colored ward at John Hopkins. One of the first examples of suffering references the first radium treatment Henrietta receives at John Hopkins, where under sedation, a tube filled with radium was inserted and sewed into her cervix. Several plaques with radium were also placed, along with gauze to keep the radium in place and a catheter into her bladder to not disturb the treatment with urination. It is discussed that while Henrietta was recovering in

Content Connections Pages Content Connection 1 The theme of The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York is: there are many ethical, social, and medical issues surrounding advancements in science. The following quote supports this theme because it demonstrates to social issues in the New York political system. The coroners were hand chosen by a city’s mayor; typically the mayors chose a political friend or ally to occupy the coroner’s office, rather

I was so excited to wake up today. It is the year 1903. All of my difficult work has finally paid off! Today is the day I will receive a Nobel Prize. It's not only me who is being awarded this prestigious prize. My husband, Pierre Curie, and my colleague, Antoine-Henri Becquerel, are sharing this prize with me as well. Sadly, my husband or I cannot attend due to the fact that we are too sick. We have all dedicated numerous hours to earn award. Everyone has sacrificed something to make this discovery

I chose to do my project on Marie Curie, the woman who discovered radium and polonium. She was born Mary Sklodowska on November 7, 1867 in Warsaw, Poland and died July 4, 1934 in Passy, France at the age of 67. In 1895, Marie married a professor named Pierre Curie at the age of 26. She was the first woman to complete a doctorate in France in MMMM at the age xxx. And in MMMMM, Curie was also the first female professor at the Sorbonne. She was the first person to use the term “radioactivity”, which

The phrase “mad as a hatter” derives from a few places, one of them being the hat-shaping business of Danbury, Connecticut. The worker’s jobs were to shape hats, and they were being exposed to many toxic elements while doing so. “After years spent shaping hats, these workers began exhibiting signs of neurological damage—stumbling, slurred speech, and shaking that became known in the city of Danbury, Connecticut, once the hat-making capital of the world, as the Danbury Shakes’” (Belli 1). After many

Who was Henrietta Lacks? What if I told you, had she not lived, your life would be very different today? Her name was Henrietta, she was a poor, uneducated, African –American woman, but she is known today as HeLa, and primarily only in the scientific community. Henrietta existed on this earth a short 31 years, but her cells live on eternally. Cells that she never knew were taken from her, dare I say stolen, at the most vulnerable time of her life, during surgery for terminal cervical cancer.

Marie Curie... She is best known for her discovery of radium and polonium and her work with radioactivity. She encountered times of adversity in her career just because she was a woman, but she met her challenges and overcame them. Marie Curie exceeded the barriers put on women in her time to become one of the world’s most famous scientists and used her knowledge to the benefit of humanity. Marie Curie was breaking barriers even when she was young. Marya Salomee Sklodowska was born on November

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.

Henderson, “The most important piece of equipment was the electrometer that Pierre and his brother had invented” (Henderson 23). While Marie was researching her new element, radium, her husband and his brother were inventing a new piece of equipment. This would push Marie’s research to the breaking point of finding the pure element of radium. During her time there were many other people in the same position as her, but when she was introduced to this tool she ended up advancing very quickly through the research

her research on these rays. When working with the mineral pitchblende in 1898, they discovered the element Polonium, which is named after Marie's birth country, Poland. Then, in 1902, they detected the presence of an element that they later called radium. Meanwhile, their research extending from Henri Becquerel’s work grabbed the attention of the science community, and this led to the Curies’ winning the Nobel Prize in 1903. Marie was the first woman to ever receive this prestigious