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#UnDiaComoHoy 13 de julio 1898 Es descubierto el elemento químico polonio, por Pierre #Curie y Marie Curie.
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Je me suis lancé dans la retranscription des noms inscrits sur le Monument aux martyrs des rayons X et du radium de toutes les nations. ça avance bien, plus que deux photo à retranscrire ! https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ehrenmal_der_Radiologie
#Memorial #RayonsX #Radium #Rontgen #Curie #Hambourg #WikimediaCommons
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Arm in Arm with Chance
A misdated photograph, two of the largest minds of the last century, and the partnership physics never got. The photograph travels well. A man and a woman walk the edge of a lake, both buttoned into heavy coats against a cold the season should not have brought. He wears the famous hair, gray now at the temples, the drooping mustache, the look of someone who long ago stopped negotiating with his tailor. She is smaller and upright, her face composed into the expression of a person who has weighed sorrow by the gram. Their arms are linked. The internet, which prefers its history pre-chewed, captions the image with confident precision: Albert Einstein and Marie Curie, Saranac Lake, New York, 1929. Nearly every word of that caption is wrong. […] -
#UnDiaComoHoy 31 de diciembre de 1911 Marie #Curie recibe su segundo premio #Nobel de #física por su investigación sobre los procesos radiactivos.
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Les événements du 10 décembre.
En 1911, la physicienne franco-polonaise, Marie #Curie reçoit le prix #Nobel de chimie pour sa découverte du radium et du polonium.
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"J'ai retiré ce radium de la pechblende
Et j'ai brûlé mes doigts à ce feu défendu
Ô paradis cent fois retrouvé reperdu
Tes yeux sont mon Pérou ma Golconde mes Indes"
Louis Aragon, Les Yeux d'Elsa, 1942
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Yeux_d%27Elsa
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What Marie Curie Left Behind https://hackaday.com/2025/06/10/what-marie-curie-left-behind/ #polonium #Science #radium #Curie
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#EltonJohn is right about #AI, but for scientists it’s already too late because #Elsevier and #SpringerNature have already used our original works to train #ScopusAI and #Curie
(Marie Sklodowska-Curie is also presumably turning in her grave about her name being stolen too).
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Heute wäre Pierre #Curie 166 Jahre alt geworden. Bei der Entdeckung der #Radioaktivität spielten er und seine Frau Marie eine wichtige Rolle. 1898 entdeckten sie u.a. #Radium, ein chemisches Element mit ausschließlich radioaktiven Isotopen.
Obwohl die Curies schon früh vor den Gefahren durch Radium warnten, wurde es als gesundheitsfördernd angepriesen und u.a. in Lebensmitteln und Medikamenten verarbeitet. Zwischenfälle mit Kranken und Toten machten später vielen Menschen die Risiken klar.
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On this day in 1610, the only recorded performance of Shakespeare's play "Macbeth" during his lifetime. #Shakespeare
On this day in 1862, the first pasteurisation test is completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard. #Pasteurisation
On this day in 1902, Marie and Pierre Curie discover the radioactive element radium. #Curie #Science
On this day in 1951, surgeon Dan Gavriliu surgically reconstructed a human organ for the first time. #Surgery
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Les événements du 10 décembre.
En 1911, la physicienne franco-polonaise, Marie #Curie reçoit le prix #Nobel de chimie pour sa découverte du radium et du polonium. …
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A conversation.
“When experts disagree, usually the best thing to do is listen to what the majority of experts say. There’s no guarantee that they’re right, but they’re more likely right than wrong. And if the majority view is overturned, it’s almost guaranteed that this will be done by other experts in the field presenting evidence for the minority view, not by random kibitzers.”
“For the history buffs in here, while most scientific knowledge is advanced incrementally, the true breakthroughs are usually ridiculed by the reigning experts. That is why appeals to authority are the worst kind of logical fallacy for a scientist.”
“That’s the pop-history version of scientific progress. The actual #history of #science is very different. Kind of like the difference between ‘history buffs’ and historians.”
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Yes, there are examples—a few—of genuine breakthroughs that were ridiculed by the scientific establishment of the day. I bet you know what they are, because everyone does. They laughed at #Semmelweis, they laughed at #Wegner, they laughed at Luis and Walter #Alvarez, they laughed at #Marshall and #Warren. These things happened.
But they did not laugh at #Galileo: indeed, they took his work with deadly seriousness. (And there really wasn’t any such thing as a “scientific establishment” at the time.) They did not laugh at #Newton, or #Watt, or #Darwin, or #Gibbs, or #Pasteur, or #Einstein, or #Curie, or #Heisenberg, or #Fisher, or #Watson and #Crick and poor unacknowledged #Franklin, or #Tharp and #Heezen, or #Ostrom and #Bakker, or #Hansen, or the vast majority of scientists whose work has fundamentally changed our understanding of the universe.
At least if by “they” you mean scientists working in relevant fields, who understood the questions at hand … not, in most cases, scientists from other fields, or those with no scientific experience at all. Nor the religious and political ideologues who muddy the waters by creating fake “controversies” to cast doubt on results they know are true, but cannot accept.
In some cases they disagreed, quite vociferously. There were debates that descended into shouting matches, professional disagreements turned into personal feuds, once-eminent researchers become sad cranks, ruined careers and shortened lives. Yes. These things happened too, and that’s a tragedy.
But most of the time, most researchers in the same fields as the revolutionaries said, “Oh, that makes sense!” Problems that had seemed insoluble suddenly became simple, or at least it was possible to see how there might be an elegant solution. Major discoveries spawned a host of medium-sized ones, each of which in turn spawned endless minor ones—and endless minor papers, academic bread and butter for when you can’t get steak and lobster. Everyone wins.
Those ideologues I mentioned above? They really, really want you to believe the narrative of ridicule. You might want to consider why.
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In 1896, Henri Becquerel made the first of a sequence of discoveries of radioactivity, followed by his student, Marie Curie. #Poetry #Science #History #Physics #Radioactivity #Becquerel #Curie (https://sharpgiving.com/thebookofscience/items/p1896.html)
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In 1895, Pierre Curie discovered that paramagnetism depends on the temperature of the material. #Poetry #Science #History #Electromagnetism #Paramagnetism #Curie (https://sharpgiving.com/thebookofscience/items/p1895c.html)
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In 1880, Pierre and Jacques Curie demonstrated the piezoelectric effect in crystals. #Poetry #Science #History #Electromagnetism #Piezoelectricity #Curie (https://sharpgiving.com/thebookofscience/items/p1880b.html)
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⚗️ Campaigners criticise ‘absurd’ plan to take apart and rebuild Curie lab in Paris
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Campaigners criticise ‘absurd’ plan to take apart and rebuild #Curie lab in #Paris - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/04/campaigners-criticise-plan-marie-curie-laboratory-building-paris "French government to hear last-ditch appeal this week over new culture minister’s ‘compromise’ for Pavillon des Sources"
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Il 21 dicembre di 125 anni fa i coniugi #Curie scoprono il radio https://www.storicang.it/a/marie-curie-madre-della-fisica-moderna_14937
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#OnThisDay French Scientists Pierre and Marie #Curie discovered #Radium (1898).
#Lockerbie disaster (1988) : Pan Am Flight 103 was destroyed by a bomb, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew.
Happy Birthday #Tennis #Legend Chris Evert (1954). She won 18 Grand Slam singles championships and three doubles titles.
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Radioactive Water Was Once a (Horrifying) Health Fad - Take a little time to watch the history of Radithor, a presentation by [Adam Blume... - https://hackaday.com/2023/11/10/radioactive-water-was-once-a-horrifying-health-fad/ #chemistryhacks #radioactivity #radiumwater #radiation #medicine #quackery #radithor #snakeoil #science #radium #1920s #1930s #curie
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Grosse émotion... et grosses confusions sur les réseaux sociaux et dans la presse ces derniers temps, quant aux travaux à #Curie à #Paris5 • Tentons de poser un peu les choses, et de voir de quoi il s'agit, au-delà des réactions épidermiques comme celle de #LaurenceParisot sur #X (cf ↓ copie d'écran) [1/9]
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Marie Skłodowska Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel prize, the first person to win two Nobel prizes, the only person to win Nobel prizes in multiple sciences, and once successfully nailed a jelly to a wall.
#Curie #MarieCurie #NobelPrize #science #physics #chemistry #history #achievements
