Post by hollister on Feb 27, 2008 17:50:05 GMT -7
I know this is old hat to some of you - but I was working on my New Town stuff and so Marie Skłodowska-Curie came up.
Jaga, can you tell us more about the "Floating University"? I assume that it moved around so the students and instructors could not be caught meeting. Much like WWII right?
Maria Skłodowska's birthplace on ulica Freta (Freta Street) in Warsaw's "New Town."
Marie Skłodowska-Curie was born in Warsaw in 1867, the the youngest of five children.
Skłodowska-Curie was the first person to win or share two Nobel Prizes.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie
Maria Skłodowska-Curie
source: www.mlahanas.de/Physics/Bios/MarieCurie.htm
Marie Skłodowska was born in Warsaw in 1867, the the youngest of five children
She was denied admission to a regular university for two reasons, she was female and because of Russian reprisals following the Polish 1863 uprising against Tsarist Russia, Marie worked as a teacher and attended Warsaw's illegal Polish Floating University. In 1891 she enrolled in the University of Paris. In 1903 she became the first woman in France to complete a doctorate.
Skłodowska-Curie was the first person to win or share two Nobel Prizes. She is one of only two people who have been awarded a Nobel Prize in two different fields, the other being Linus Pauling (Chemistry, Peace) She also donated her and her husband's gold Nobel Prize medals for the war effort during World War I.
With her husband, Pierre Currie, she studied radioactive materials. In 1898 the couple announced the existence of an element named polonium, in honor of Marie’ s native Poland, which was currently partitioned among three empires. On December 26, 1898, the Curies announced the existence of a second element, named radium for its intense radioactivity — a word that they coined.
In an unusual decision, Skłodowska-Curie intentionally refrained from patenting the radium-isolation process so that the scientific community could do research unhindered.
During World War I, Skłodowska-Curie pushed for the use of mobile radiography units, known as petites Curies ("Little Curies"), for the treatment of wounded soldiers. These units were powered using tubes of radium emanation, later identified as radon. Skłodowska-Curie personally provided the tubes.
After World War I, Skłodowska-Curie toured the United States, to raise funds for her research on radium. She succeeded in equipping the Warsaw Radium Institute, founded in 1925, with her sister Bronisława as director.
In her later years, Skłodowska-Curie headed the Pasteur Institute and a radioactivity laboratory created for her by the University of Paris.
Her death in 1934 was from aplastic anemia, almost certainly due to exposure to radiation, much of her work had been carried out in a shed with no safety measures. She often carried test tubes containing radioactive isotopes in her pockets and stored them in her desk drawer, remarking on the pretty blue-green light the substances gave off in the dark.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie
Jaga, can you tell us more about the "Floating University"? I assume that it moved around so the students and instructors could not be caught meeting. Much like WWII right?
Maria Skłodowska's birthplace on ulica Freta (Freta Street) in Warsaw's "New Town."
Marie Skłodowska-Curie was born in Warsaw in 1867, the the youngest of five children.
Skłodowska-Curie was the first person to win or share two Nobel Prizes.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie
Maria Skłodowska-Curie
source: www.mlahanas.de/Physics/Bios/MarieCurie.htm
Marie Skłodowska was born in Warsaw in 1867, the the youngest of five children
She was denied admission to a regular university for two reasons, she was female and because of Russian reprisals following the Polish 1863 uprising against Tsarist Russia, Marie worked as a teacher and attended Warsaw's illegal Polish Floating University. In 1891 she enrolled in the University of Paris. In 1903 she became the first woman in France to complete a doctorate.
Skłodowska-Curie was the first person to win or share two Nobel Prizes. She is one of only two people who have been awarded a Nobel Prize in two different fields, the other being Linus Pauling (Chemistry, Peace) She also donated her and her husband's gold Nobel Prize medals for the war effort during World War I.
With her husband, Pierre Currie, she studied radioactive materials. In 1898 the couple announced the existence of an element named polonium, in honor of Marie’ s native Poland, which was currently partitioned among three empires. On December 26, 1898, the Curies announced the existence of a second element, named radium for its intense radioactivity — a word that they coined.
In an unusual decision, Skłodowska-Curie intentionally refrained from patenting the radium-isolation process so that the scientific community could do research unhindered.
During World War I, Skłodowska-Curie pushed for the use of mobile radiography units, known as petites Curies ("Little Curies"), for the treatment of wounded soldiers. These units were powered using tubes of radium emanation, later identified as radon. Skłodowska-Curie personally provided the tubes.
After World War I, Skłodowska-Curie toured the United States, to raise funds for her research on radium. She succeeded in equipping the Warsaw Radium Institute, founded in 1925, with her sister Bronisława as director.
In her later years, Skłodowska-Curie headed the Pasteur Institute and a radioactivity laboratory created for her by the University of Paris.
Her death in 1934 was from aplastic anemia, almost certainly due to exposure to radiation, much of her work had been carried out in a shed with no safety measures. She often carried test tubes containing radioactive isotopes in her pockets and stored them in her desk drawer, remarking on the pretty blue-green light the substances gave off in the dark.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie