Lucidcafe's Profile of Marie Curie ...

Access Excellence Classic Collection The Discovery Of Radioactivity: The Dawn of the Nuclear Age Fran Slowiczek, Ed.D and Pamela M. Peters, Ph.D. One hundred years ago, a group of scientists unknowingly ushered in the Atomic Age. Driven by curiosity, these men and women explored the nature and functioning of atoms. Their work initiated paths of research which changed our understanding of the ...

A history of the NBS radium standards and Marie Curie's involvement ...

Marie Curie, a Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry, at the Nobel Prize Internet Archive.

Glenn Seaborg Dies After a Life Integral to History of 20th Century February 26, 1999 Contact: Lynn Yarris, lcyarris@lbl.gov BERKELEY, CA. -- Glenn Theodore Seaborg, Nobel Laureate chemist, discoverer of 10 atomic elements including plutonium and one that now bears his name, Associate Director-at-Large of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University Professor of Chemistry for the ...

A Nobel Laureate and one of the founding fathers of the atomic age. He was co-discoverer of plutonium and later served as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. Q: I want to go back to before the Second World War, when the heaviest naturally element known was uranium. Can you talk about how you were given the job, as a young chemist, to investigate plutonium A: I came to Berkeley as a ...

Kurt Alder, a Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry, at the Nobel Prize Internet Archive.

Elias James Corey, a Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry, at the Nobel Prize Internet Archive.

March 5, 1999 No one could ever accuse Glenn Seaborg of being one of those intellectuals who huddle up in an ivy-covered tower and never take their nose out of their books. He often expressed his belief in the dictum of Thomas Edison that genius is ninety-nine percent perspiration and said the secret to his success was that he could work harder than most. A reason for this was that throughout ...