Becquerel had found that uranium ionizes the ambient air — causes it to conduct electricity — and Marie set about measuring the intensity of the radiation, using an electrometer of the Curie brothers’ invention and a piezoelectric quartz crystal. Denis Brian quotes Marie’s 1911 Nobel Prize ...
Even Redniss’s blue-tinged image-printing process, cyanotype, is itself a nod to the history of radioactivity. The book feels like a conversation with Curie across time and medium. Satrapi’s movie, by contrast, feels like a director trying to do justice to Redniss’s visual invention ...
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Continue reading “Journey through Fast.AI: II – Columnar data” → 23 November 2018 2 Journey through Fast.AI: I – Introduction and image data by Giles Strong For the past few months I’ve been following the Fast.AI Deep-Learning for Coders course. An online series of lectures accompani...
Marie Curie was born in Poland on November 7, 1867. When she grew older, Marie wanted to go to university and study physics. Unfortunately, at that time women were not allowed to study in Poland, so Marie had to move to France where she was allowed to go to university. ...
Madame Marie Curie is famous for having won two Nobel Prizes, but many other women have also been awarded the prize. Here are their stories. Sigrid Undset Sigrid Undset is one of the three Norwegian authors to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature. Undset received the Prize in 1928, ...