technology being discovered every day. These Shining Lives displays the extremes companies go to in order to maintain their reputations in society and among their competition. Through her play Melanie Marnich captures the false ignorance of the danger of radium when consumed by the women making the watches. In order for individuals to remain satisfied‚ dangerous jobs are necessary although safety should be a priority in any company and employees made completely aware of what their job entails. The needs
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The Radium Girls were a group of five women out of 70 others poisoned by radium in the factory in which they would paint watches‚ clocks‚ compasses‚ and other military utilities with glow-in-the-dark radium paint daily. The demand for this work became higher as the United States entered into World War I‚ and women considered themselves lucky to have these
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Though her life was filled with many difficult situations one that was harder to overcome to the public was being a female scientist and how the board didn’t wish to grant access to a proper laboratory until the couple had proven the existence of Radium. When the movie first began they began with telling the listeners about how she was poor and had left her family and came from all across the world just to learn / take her education/ get her degree in physics and
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Marie Curie LIFE OF MARIE CURIE Marie Curie(1867-1934) was a French physicist with many accomplishments in both physics and chemistry. Marie and her husband Pierre‚ who was also a French physicist‚ are both famous for their work in radioactivity. Marie Curie‚ originally named Marja Sklodowska‚ was born in Warsaw‚ Poland on Nov.7‚ 1867. Her first learning of physics came from her father who taught it in high school. Marie’s father must have taught his daughter well because in 1891‚ she went
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develop more reliable and safe cures. Her sacrifice was able to save and treat countless amounts of people. As it says on page 32‚ ¨the usual treatment was dosages of radium...However‚ those who handled the radium would most likely die of cancer from the radiation emitted by the radium.¨ No one fully understood cancer at the time‚ so radium and amputations were commonly used. These were not oftenly successful‚ and they were painful and dangerous procedures‚ and more often than not‚ the patient did not
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world for the better by saving the lives of many WW1 soldiers using her x ray which she developed using one of radioactive materials that she discovered (Radium) And she founded many other things. This is the story of Marie Curie. The curies were inspired in their research by Henri becquerel for he discovered radioactivity that led the discover Radium and Polonium. By doing so she invented the x
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Brook’s interest in the sciences influenced her to get a master’s degree in physics in 1901‚ making her the first woman to receive a master’s degree at McGill University (Rayner-Canham). While getting her master’s degree‚ Brooks began working with radium‚ which had only been discovered a few years prior in 1898. After researching the emanation
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radiation within the safe dose range. There are two major methods of radiation treatment: 1/ Internal Radiation (a.k.a. radium implant‚ brachytherapy‚ or interstitual or intracavitary radiation) In this procedure the radiation oncologist places radioactive material (usually radium‚ cesium‚ or iridium)‚ into or onto the inflicted area. The purpose is to place the radioactive material as close to the tumor
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Abi Sivatharman Sister Cecilia AP Physics I 2015 David Hahn David Hahn was a typical seventeen year old boy scout who had grown up in the small town of Golf Manor‚ Michigan. It wasn’t until the day that suited men from the Environmental Protection Agency came to his house‚ raiding his makeshift lab in the backyard‚ for his self-deemed project to gain national recognition and reveal exactly what his obsession turned into- a homemade nuclear reactor. Since the early age of four‚ David Hahn began
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honesty and moderate life style. Although she was a women in a field of study dominated by men‚ she was the first women to be awarded not one but two Nobel Prizes‚ for isolating radium and one examining its chemical properties. With a feelings of obligation and responsibility she intentionally refused to patent any of her radium-isolation processes so that the world as a whole could benefit from her
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