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Saturday, May 29, 2010

MARIE CURIE BIOGRAPHY

Marie Sklodowska Curie was a woman scientist who was born in Warsaw, Poland on November 7, 1867. He was born in a family of teachers. Her father is a physics teacher. Meanwhile, her mother was a school principal. Marie is the youngest of five children.
She is very intelligent and has a strong memory. Thus, at the age of 15 years, she graduated from High School with highest honors. However, he could not continue their education to university because in Poland at that time she studied at the University is prohibited. In addition, he also did not have enough money because his family is poor. Therefore, at the age of 17 years he became a tutor to earn money.
Then, after collecting enough money she moved to Paris and enrolled at the Sorbonne. There, his name was eventually changed to Marie and she met in 1894. A year later they were married and since then his name to Marie Sklodowska Curie.
Two years later, Marie's interest in the study of light was discovered by Henry Becquerel in 1896. Rays are similar to X-rays on uranium. After studying the ray finally in 1898 he discovered thorium, polonium, radium, and coined the term radioactivity. Then, in 1903 he along with Henry Becquerel and Pierre Curie received the Nobel chemistry prize for discovering polonium, radium, and isolating radium which later developed into the manufacture of nuclear materials.
Because of this discovery Marie became so famous in the world. However, because of his discovery he was also attacked by blood cancer. We investigate and separate the radium was too much exposed to radioactive rays. As a result, he suffered from blood cancer and died on July 4, 1934 in Savoy, France at the age of 67 years.
Even so, she still remembered as the first woman in the world to be a professor at the Sorbonne, physicists, chemists and scientists as well as the woman who was so instrumental in finding the manufacture of nuclear materials. In addition, he also was the first person in the world that managed to get the Nobel prize twice. The first Nobel Prize for Physics and the second for Chemistry.
A year after the death of one of Marie's daughter named Irene also received the Nobel chemistry prize with her husband, Frederic Joliot, because it managed to make a new element that is radioactive. Meanwhile, another daughter named Eve became famous for being the author of biographies of Marie.

ALBERT EINSTEIN'S BIOGRAPHY

Albert Einstein (14 March 1879-18 April 1955) is a theoretical physicist widely regarded as the greatest scientist in the 20th century. He put forward the theory of relativity and also greatly contributed to the development of quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, and cosmology. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect and "for his services to Theoretical Physics". Having formulated the theory of general relativity, Einstein became famous throughout the world, an unusual achievement for a scientist.
In his old age, fame beyond all scientists in history, and in popular culture, says Einstein is considered synonymous with intelligence or even genius. His face is one of the most recognized worldwide. In 1999, Einstein called "The Century" by Time magazine. Popularity also makes the name "Einstein" is widely used in advertisements and other merchandise, and finally "Albert Einstein" is registered as a trademark. To appreciate them, a unit in the photochemistry named Einstein, a chemical element named after einsteinium, and a named asteroid 2001 Einstein.