Here are 50 facts about Earth. 1. We're the third rock from the sun (Image credit: Getty Images) Our home, Earth, is the third planet from the sun, the fifth largest planet in our solar system, with a radius of 3,959 miles, and the only world known to support an atmosphere with...
When World War I broke out in 1914, Marie put her radioactivity research on hold. Germany dropped its first three bombs on Paris on September 2, 1914. Marie had a shortage of researches because all of them had been drafted for the war effort. Her lab was moved from the Radium Institute,...
She is credited for coining the term “radioactivity” and won her first Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband and another colleague, Henri Becquerel, in 1903. Following Pierre’s death in 1906, Marie was appointed to her husband’s professorship and was the first woman to teach at Paris...
the radioactivityhad dropped to one-quarter of its initial value. After one dayit had dropped to one-fifteenth. And, after 3 months it had dropped to less than one percent. The plant didn’t actually close until years later.
Ten fun facts about Irene Joliot-Curie1. Irene & Frederic Joliot Win Nobel Prize Irene Joliot-Curie and her husband, Frederic Joliot, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935 for their discovery of artificial radioactivity. This remarkable achievement was made even more remarkable by the...
Ten fun facts about Jean-André Deluc1. Jean Andre Deluc: The French Diplomat Who Grew to Power In 1768, Jean Andre Deluc was appointed to the embassy of a French military officer in Paris. He was responsible for representing the officer's interests and providing counsel on matters of ...
I consider myself more of a book full of odd and interesting facts, and like a book I wish to share with others what I have learned. I don’t consider myself superior to anyone, as everyone has things to say that are just as interesting. I do enjoy reading all the comments people ...
BTW, thanks for the lesson on the origins of radioactivity in materials – I found it informative (sincerely). debbiebf said: “Before aspartame was approved, Coca Cola wrote a letterto the FDA saying it was too dangerous and had been proven to cause brain tumors. “ If Coke really believ...
This first laboratory proof was investigated for ten more years by French scientists Frederic and Irene Joliot-Curie which formulated a theoretical model for artificial radioactivity. The French savants who received the Nobel prize in 1935 have acknowledged the initial discovery of Stefania Maracineanu...
Arthur Eddington, a British astrophysicist, is renowned for his work on the Eddington limit, a natural threshold to the brightness of stars or the radioactivity generated by accretion on a compact object. His work has been instrumental in understanding the physics of stars and their evolution, as...