Maria Sklodowska-Curie and Radioactivity
Warsaw: GALANT Edition, 2011. Presumed First English Language Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 148 pages. Illustrations. Bibliography. Key Dates in the Life and Work of Maria Sklodowska-Curie. Glossary of Basic Terms. Index of Names. Minor fep soiling. The first edition of this work was part of the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of Maria Sklodowska-Curie's birth in 1967. 2011 is the centenary of Marie Curie receiving the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. This was her second Nobel Prize. In 1948, Jozef Hurwic was a Senior Assistant in the Studio of Electrochemical Measurements of the main Institute of industrial chemistry. In 1951,he earned a Ph.D. in technical sciences at the Warsaw University of Technology and was Assistant Professor. In 1954 He was an Associate Professor, and in 1967, is a full professor. From 1961 he held the Chair of physics, and in May 1962, he was elected Dean of the faculty. H was President of the Polish chemical society in 1967. As a result of the events of March, August 20, 1968, he was removed from the position of Dean and was forced to submit a request for indefinite unpaid leave. He emigrated to France. Marie Sklodowska Curie (born Maria Salomea Sklodowska; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and only woman to win twice, and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences. She was also the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris. In 1891, aged 24, she went to study in Paris, where she earned her higher degrees and conducted her subsequent scientific work. She shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband Pierre Curie and with physicist Henri Becquerel. She won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Her achievements included the development of the theory of radioactivity (a term that she coined), techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes, and the discovery of two elements, polonium and radium. She founded the Curie Institutes in Paris and in Warsaw . During World War I, she developed mobile radiography units to provide X-ray services to field hospitals. Marie Curie died in 1934 of aplastic anemia from exposure to radiation in the course of her research and her radiological work at field hospitals during World War I. Condition: Very good.
Keywords: Maria Curie, Radioactivity, Polonium, Radium, Nobel Prize, Henri Becquerel, Pierre Curie, Joliot-Curie, Ernest Rutherford, Nuclear Chemistry, Nuclear Physics
ISBN: 9788392938620
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Price: $35.00