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André Louis Debierne
(1874–1949) French chemistBorn in Paris, France, Debierne was educated at the Ecole de Physique et Chemie. After graduation he worked at the Sorbonne and as an assistant to Pierre and Marie Curie, ...
Antoine Henri Becquerel
(1852–1908) French physicist.His early researches were in optics; then, in 1896, he accidentally discovered radioactivity in fluorescent salts of uranium. Three years later he showed that it consists ...
astrophysics
The study of the physical and chemical processes involving astronomical phenomena. Astrophysics deals with stellar structure and evolution (including the generation and transport of energy within ...
Bertram Borden Boltwood
(1870–1927)Professor of radiochemistry at Yale University, in 1907 Boltwood made early determinations of the age of the Earth using uranium:lead ratios. He was able to show a long geologic time-scale ...
conservation law
A law stating that the total magnitude of a certain physical property of a system, such as its mass, energy, or charge, remain unchanged even though there may be exchanges of that property between ...
Curie, Marie (1867–1934) Reference library
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(1867–1934).
Physicist. Born in Poland, she was one of the first scientists to investigate the phenomenon which
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Polish scientist who specialized in work on radiation. Marie and her husband Pierre Curie (1859–1906) (who specialized
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(1867–1934),
Polish‐born French physicist. Few women in science have attained the iconic status of Marie Sklodowska Curie, who with her husband, ...
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Who's Who in the Twentieth Century
Polish-born French chemist. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first person to win two Nobel Prizes. She shared the ...
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(1867–1934) Polish–French chemist
Marie Skłodowska's father was a physics teacher and her mother the principal of a girls' school in the Polish capital Warsaw. She acquired from ...
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Ernest Rutherford
(1871–1937)A New Zealand-born physicist, Rutherford worked at the Universities of Cambridge and Manchester, and at McGill University in Canada. He made important studies of radiation and the ...
Françoise Giroud
(1916–2003)worked in the film industry and journalism before becoming minister of state for women (1974–6) and then for cultural affairs (1976–7). Her very varied output includes collections of ...
Irène Joliot-Curie
(1897–1956)French physicist who, in collaboration with her husband, Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900–58), discovered artificial radioactivity. For this they were awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize for ...
polonium
Symbol Po. A rare radioactive metallic element of group 16 (formerly VIB) of the periodic table; a.n. 84; r.a.m. 210; r.d. 9.32; m.p. 254°C; b.p. 962°C. The element occurs in uranium ores to an ...
radioactive tracer
A radioactive isotope whose movement can be monitored, which is used to trace the pathways by which individual substances move through an organism, a living system, the abiotic environment, etc. ...
radioactivity
The spontaneous fission of the nuclei of certain unstable (radioactive) elements or isotopes into more stable configurations, which gives rise to daughter elements or isotopes. In certain cases, ...
