 Volume XXXII , No. 2, Fall 2000 |
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A major new exhibit has been mounted on the Web to explain
the life and work of Marie Curie. "Marie Curie and the Science of
Radioactivity" joins the award-winning exhibits on Einstein, Heisenberg,
Sakharov and others on the Center for History of Physics Web site. The
new exhibit was written by
The exhibit may be seen at www.aip.org/history/curie. See also the article Web site Documents Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics.
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New
Web Exhibit on Marie Curie
Naomi
Pasachoff, author of a book on Madame Curie aimed at high-school students.
While the appeal is universal, it is expected that the largest number
of viewers will be young women and girls with an interest in science.
This audience is very important to the future of physics. Young women
who are making career choices need to see that physics is not a narrowly
masculine enterprise, and that one can pursue a world-class research career
along with a life richly engaged in both family and the society at large.
The
exhibit covers every aspect of Marie Curie's career, including her turbulent
youth, her entry into science and the discoveries that won her two Nobel
prizes, her marriage and complex emotional life, her creation of medical
services at the Front during the First World War, her creation and administration
of the Radium Institute as a world scientific center, and her legacy including
her daughter Irène, another Nobel-winning scientist. The exhibit
is augmented by 90 striking illustrations, English translations of articles
by Marie Curie, and supplementary pages explaining the science of radioactivity
in simple language. The entire exhibit has been checked and corrected
by leading historians of science, with the cooperation of the French Association
Curie et Joliot Curie and the Museum and Archives of the Radium Institute,
Paris.
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