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In terms of practical accomplishments helping to better the lives of people today Madame Marie Curie far exceeds the achievements of any other modern or scientific person Anybody who is in a hospital that uses an XRay machine is using technology developed by Marie Curie Any cancer patient who is undergoing radiation treatment to prolong life is using a procedure discovered by Marie Curie Anybody who turns on a light bulb in their house is likely using power from a nuclear power plant based on discoveries made by Marie Curie The list of discoveries made by Marie Curie goes on and on not the least of which it was the discoveries of Marie Curie of nuclear fission that made the Atomic Bomb and other nuclear weapons possible Yet except for a few academics and watchers of The Discovery Channel the name of Marie Curie is largely unknown Ask a hundred men on the street if they know who Marie Curie is or was not more than one of them will have ever heard her If you ask the same group if they have ever heard of Albert Einstein all of them will have heard of him Yet Albert Einstein was only concerned with theoretical physics and his own theories None of his discoveries have yet been proven or confirmed None have been made into a machine like the common XRay Machine now seen in all major hospitals Marie Curie suffered from a form of discrimination experienced by almost all women of academic accomplishment Her discoveries were not taken seriously or were often credited to some man in her background Always it was assumed that the real work was done by some man and that the woman was just a wall flower
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Narrating the welllived life of the Chinese Madame Curie a recipient of the first Wolf Prize in Physics 1978 the first woman to receive an honorary doctorate from Princeton University as well as the first female president of the American Physical Society this book provides a comprehensive and honest account of the life of Dr Wu ChienShiung an outstanding and leading experimental physicist of the 20th century
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Narrating the welllived life of the Chinese Madame Curie a recipient of the first Wolf Prize in Physics 1978 the first woman to receive an honorary doctorate from Princeton University as well as the first female president of the American Physical Society this book provides a comprehensive and honest account of the life of Dr Wu ChienShiung an outstanding and leading experimental physicist of the 20th century
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And dont forget once you are married to a Rothschild you can become a famous woman Doris Schmitzs mother told her Be another Madame Curie and invent radium Youll be famous Doris reminded her that radium had already been discovered Dont argue her mother said Youre going to invent radium or Ill pull your hair Youre just being negative like your fatherRothschilds and radium were the horizons of Doriss childhood Born in Germany in the early twentieth century she came of age in an uppermiddleclass family that struggled to maintain its bourgeois respectability between the two World WarsnbspDoris Drucker she met her husband Peterof management famein the 1930s has penned a lively and charming memoir that brings to life the Germany of her childhood Rather than focusing on the rise of Hitler Drucker weaves history into her story of the daytoday life of a relatively apolitical family She chronicles here the crowds that gathered to see the Zeppelin her attempts to negotiate her Prussian mothers plans for her like marrying well and becoming a famous scientist ski trips and hikes the schools she attended her fathers struggles to support the family and all the stuff and drama that make up a childhood Druckers energetic storytelling eye for the telling detail and sly humor draw the reader into her portrait of a way of life made forever poignant by its place in history so close to the brutalities of World War IIFrom the boarding school that forbade girls to look at their own legs while they bathed to the unfortunate confusion that resulted from Doriss misinterpretation of Warsaw has fallen as The Waschfrau washerwoman has fallen the tales recounted in Invent Radium or Ill Pull Your Hair give dimension and depth to a milieu that has been flattened by the historical events around it
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When all the humans in his world disappear Max a yellow Labrador Retriever begins the search for his family He knows that if he can just find Madame Curie a wise old black Lab shell be able to help Madame had a premonition of astonishing events to come she might know where Maxs family isBut Max cant make the journey alone Joined by friends Rocky and Gizmo Max sets off to find Madame Along the way the trio must face a pack of angry wolves forage for food in a land where kibble is akin to gold befriend a house full of cats and outsmart a gang of subway rats Ultimately theyll have to escape from the biggest threat of all the Corporation a perfect society for dogs and by dogs where nothing is quite as it seemsThe Last Dogs The Vanishing is a thrilling adventure and a tale of three unlikely friends on an epic quest to find their people and bring them home
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