tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post8385922266481887707..comments2024-03-28T22:50:02.315+11:00Comments on ART and ARCHITECTURE, mainly: Dr Marie Curie: my greatest medical hero Guest post Helshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-84386354328342164142019-07-01T20:01:52.211+10:002019-07-01T20:01:52.211+10:00mem
I wonder when scientists understood the toxic...mem<br /><br />I wonder when scientists understood the toxic quality of radium. Physics Today wrote that by the late 1920s major radiological societies in Europe and the US were growing concerned about the effects of radiation exposures. In 1929, alarmed by the MANY deaths among laboratory and industrial workers who handled radioactive materials, the societies joined forces to establish a Radium Protection Committee. <br /><br />In fact in collaboration with the French National Academy of Medicine, Marie Curie had pushed for the use of lead screens and periodic blood tests for those working in the radium industry. Was it too late to save her own life?Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-10031167418100112512019-07-01T11:40:50.345+10:002019-07-01T11:40:50.345+10:00Thanks for this . What a brain aandd whaat courage...Thanks for this . What a brain aandd whaat courage . Its a miracle she lived as long as she didi . The picture of her stashing radium into her luggage fro transport to Europe is aa bit mind bending !!memhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05520080648914042943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-2872002531936673392019-06-27T11:33:41.360+10:002019-06-27T11:33:41.360+10:00Hilary
we assume that humanity always knew what i...Hilary<br /><br />we assume that humanity always knew what it knows now. Even though the Curies, Roentgen and Becquerel were only working in the 1890s (my grandfather might have even remembered them), their science has been lost in the mist of history.<br /><br />I think university students should do at least one unit on the History of Science.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-18065576360325037322019-06-27T11:23:16.721+10:002019-06-27T11:23:16.721+10:00Joseph
Marie Curie made a huge contribution to th...Joseph<br /><br />Marie Curie made a huge contribution to the health and survival rate of soldiers in WW1. But she was also brave... how many other middle aged scholars would drive towards the war front to help their nation?Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-74432951803676514502019-06-27T04:05:16.274+10:002019-06-27T04:05:16.274+10:00H Hels - thanks for this ... the Curies were amazi...H Hels - thanks for this ... the Curies were amazing - and so I've been grateful to learn more. Quite extraordinary ... and so many other inventions were able to come out of their findings ... as Joseph mentions amongst others - thank you - HilaryHilary Melton-Butcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17596532480645510678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-17189742283544217792019-06-26T22:43:30.280+10:002019-06-26T22:43:30.280+10:00The radiological car was a stroke of Curie genius....The radiological car was a stroke of Curie genius. The x-ray machine and the photographic darkroom equipment could drive to the front lines where army surgeons could work on the wounded soldiers as soon as possible.<br /><br />Power came from another added machine, an electrical generator.Josephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07701188167981018244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-18944846527039331432019-06-26T20:33:48.778+10:002019-06-26T20:33:48.778+10:00bazza
Good question! Part of the story is often s...bazza<br /><br />Good question! Part of the story is often surviving great obstacles that make the sufferer stronger, agreed. But so often great obstacles defeat people who weren't mainstream in the first place. These outsiders might have been people of the wrong gender, the wrong religion, the wrong colour or even the physically handicapped. <br /><br />So Janis Joplin, Amy Winehouse, Rosalind Franklin, Ada Lovelace and Vincent van Gogh were geniuses who died between 27-37 years of age. Stephen Hawkings, Nikola Tesla and Albert Einstein were equally geniuses who survived and worked until their 70s and 80s!Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-7889497870350215712019-06-26T16:45:27.745+10:002019-06-26T16:45:27.745+10:00How often is it that when we hear about great live...How often is it that when we hear about great lives there so regularly seems to be tragedy or great obstacles in those lives. Perhaps the resistance to these barriers is what helps them to overcome and raise above them to see further.<br /><b><a href="http://todiscoverice.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow"> CLICK HERE for Bazza’s almost abhorrent Blog ‘To Discover Ice’</a></b>bazzahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14794010156639774028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-410385456486311372019-06-26T13:34:16.900+10:002019-06-26T13:34:16.900+10:00Parnassus
nod and another thing. Einstein’s revol...Parnassus<br /><br />nod and another thing. Einstein’s revolutionary theory was ignored as "rubbish Jewish science", while Marie Curie was accused of being a "so-called scientist who took her late husband's findings". Both these Outsiders found inspiration in their meetings and correspondence.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-31887504487667380232019-06-26T11:57:46.258+10:002019-06-26T11:57:46.258+10:00Hello Hels and Dr. Joe, I too am a great admirer o...Hello Hels and Dr. Joe, I too am a great admirer of Marie Curie. In addition to her immense contributions to science and medicine, she also has the distinction of adding to the language the useful and now basic metaphor of searching through a ton of pitchblende.<br />--JimParnassushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08958901307538141468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-18263418390613001282019-06-26T09:50:55.842+10:002019-06-26T09:50:55.842+10:00When Pierre was nominated to receive the Nobel Pri...When Pierre was nominated to receive the Nobel Prize alone, he refused to accept it until the Nobel Committee added her name as an equal recipient. The Nobel Prize had never been given to a woman in the couple of years before Marie Curie and it nearly wasn't awarded to her either.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-22982853801815456752019-06-26T00:48:54.919+10:002019-06-26T00:48:54.919+10:00Just as well Pierre was less sexist than the Nobel...Just as well Pierre was less sexist than the Nobel Academy in Stockholm. He was keen to work with a sharp female scientist, one as clever as he was.LMKnoreply@blogger.com