Physics

Biographical

Marie Curie, née Maria Sklodowska, was born in Warsaw on November 7, 1867, the daughter of a secondary-school teacher. She received a general education in local schools and some scientific training from her father. She became involved in a students’ revolutionary organization and found it prudent to leave Warsaw, then in the part of Poland…

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Award ceremony speech

  The following account of Lawrence’s work is by Professor , member of the Nobel Committee for Physics of In 1919 discovered that nitrogen can be brought to emit protons by bombardment with alpha particles, according to the nuclearreaction equation: This discovery meant the initiation of a new era in natural sciences. However, as long…

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