根据第二段中的“Then, in 1911, after much personal tragedy (Pierre Curie had died suddenly in 1906), Curie was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for isolating pure radium. She would go on to devote her research to the study of the chemistry of radioactive substances as well as their...
For Rosamund Pike, taking on the role of Marie Curie was almost a no-brainer. Pike plays the famous scientist in the new Amazon Studios fictionalized biopic, "Radioactive." She recently talked about the role. "Here is a woman, you look at the pictures, who looked fairly conventional....
A scientist doesn’t say, “Well we know the Earth is flat because that’s the way it looks, that’s what’s intuitive, and that’s what everyone agrees is true,” a scientist says, “The part of the Earth that I can see at any given time appears to be flat, which would be th...
Compared with other physicists such as Marie Curie or Richard Feynman, Wu is not a household name, but she was one of the most influential nuclear physicists of the 20th century, one that radically changed humans' view of the universe.Among her important contributions to physics, Wu was t...
1 Part1intheSeries“Whatisnuclearwasteandwhybeconcerned?” ByValerieG.Barnes-Connell,TheNortherner(LarongeSK),December1,2011 (Thisisthefirstinapubliceducationseries,fromascientificperspective,aboutnuclear wastetakenfromapresentationgivenbyDr.GordonEdwards,oneofCanadaʼsmost eminentexpertsandcriticsofthenucle...