The lives of Marie Curie - A woman in the history of Chemistry
# What is chemistry? Who was Marie Curie?Here is a portrait of Marie Curie witnessing six major landmarks in the history of chemistry. Assuming...
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# What is chemistry? Who was Marie Curie?
Here is a portrait of Marie Curie witnessing six major landmarks in the history of chemistry. Assuming various disguises, she plays one of the characters in episodes chronicling discoveries that changed he world in various eras.
- In Athens, she is a young slave who listens to Aristotle's theories about the nature of the world and the nature of women.
- In Basel, Paracelsus, the alchemist-physician, heals her from her melancholy and shows her the secrets of matter.
- In 1789, at the heart of the French Revolution, she is Lavoisier's housekeeper.
- In Russia, she is Mendeleev's student and dreams about going to Paris.
- In 1911, she's a widow and mother of 2 daughters and is awarded her second Nobel prize for having chemically isolated a new element: *radium*.
- And in 2011, why do we need chemistry? What about women's place in society?
Marie Curie is back! Come and meet her!
http://www.fiami.ch/MC/MC_E/MC_E_home...
- Format:Paperback
- Pages:38 pages
- Publication:2011
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- Language:eng
- ISBN10:2970049961
- ISBN13:9782970049968
- kindle Asin:2970049961
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