Talking about a famous woman scientist I want to highlight Rachel Carson. She was working in one of the oldest field of science - biology. She was a professional in marine biology and nature. Moreover she was a writer, she wrote a book named "The sea around us". This book is a prize-winning and best-selling book. Her book "Silent spring" caused a big resonance and increased the number of conservationists. Additionally her works contribute environmental movements in USA.
Barbara McClintock made a number of groundbreaking discoveries in genetics. She demonstrated the phenomenon of chromosomal crossover, which increases genetic variation in species. She also discovered transposition – genes moving about within chromosomes – often described as jumping genes, and showed that genes are responsible for switching the physical traits of an organism on or off. Barbara McClintock was born on June 16, 1902 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA Her family had little money, so her interest in research was viewed with skepticism. It was more important for her to marry, her family thought. Despite this, Barbara began studying at Cornell's College of Agriculture in 1919. She never married, choosing to devote her life to research. She was shy, but at the same time she also realized the importance of what she had achieved, not least of all in her role as an example for other women. Barbara McClintock died aged 90 of natural causes in Huntington, New York, on September 2, 1992.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)- a philosopher of Jewish origin, a political theorist and historian, founder of the theory of totalitarianism. Totalitarianism is the political mode aspiring to a full(total) control of the state in society and humans. She lived in Germany and USA, where educated at Marburg, Freiburg and Heidelberg Universities. Hannah paid special attention to the concept of freedom.In the words of Arendt on Earth lives "men, not man". The legacy(наследие)of Arendt includes more than 450 works, varied in content but united by the idea of understanding the present.
Marie Curie (1867-1934) was a Polish-born French physicist famous for her work on radioactivity and twice a winner of the Nobel Prize. The life of this woman was unique. Radioactivity has become part of her life, in the direct and figurative sense of the word. Even today, almost 80 years after the scientist's death, her papers as "Radiation at" what can only watch them with protective equipment. Polish immigrant in the early XX century worked on the production of radioactive elements such as radium, polonium, and uranium. In this case no protection scientists have not used, do not even hesitate over what damage these elements may cause a living person. Long-term work with radium led to the development of leukemia. For negligence Marie Curie paid with her life, and in fact she even wore on the chest a vial with a radioactive element, as a kind of talisman. Academic heritage of this woman made her immortal. Maria received the Nobel Prize twice - in 1903 for hysics and in 1911 in chemistry. Also this brave woman scientist worked in a special Radium Institute, studying the radioactivity there.
Today women have occupied a greater name in the field of science, proving that they are capable of equating men in their abilities to conduct scientific research. They have taken significant positions in the scientific field as compared to the more traditional roles: mother, wife, and homemaker that existed in the past centuries.Italian Neurophysiologist, Rita Levi-Montalcini is one exceptional woman, who through her pioneering contribution and hard work has set an amazing example for other women to follow her footsteps. She won the 1986 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine which she shared with the biochemist Stanley Cohen.At 101 years, she has the stamina that many younger people might envy. On her workdays Rita gives equal time to her namesake brain research laboratory and her foundation to support African women with potential for scientific accomplishment.
Today i tell you about one famous scientist, whose name Irène Curie-Joliot. The elder daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie, Irène followed her parents’ footsteps into the lab. The thesis for her 1925 doctor of science was on the alpha rays of polonium, one of the two elements her mother discovered. The next year, she married Frédéric Joliot, one of her mother’s assistants at the Radium Institute in Paris. Irène and Frédéric continued their collaboration inside the laboratory, pursuing research on the structure of the atom. In 1934, they discovered artificial radioactivity by bombarding aluminum, boron and magnesium with alpha particles to produce isotopes of nitrogen, phosphorus, silicon and aluminum. They received the Nobel Prize in chemistry the next year, making Marie and Irène the first parent-child couple to have independently won Nobels. All those years working with radioactivity took a toll, however, and Irène died of leukemia in 1956.
Lise Meitner was determined to study radioactivity. When she finished school at the age of 14, higher education was banned for Austrian women. In Berlin she collaborated with Otto Hahn on the study of radioactive elements, but as Austrian Jewish woman (all three qualities were strikes against her), she was excluded from the main labs and lectures and allowed to work only in the basement. Meitner continued her work in Sweden and after Hahn discovered that uranium atoms were split when bombarded with neutrons, she calculated the energy released in the reaction and named the phenomenon “nuclear fission.” Lise refused to return to Germany after the war and continued her atomic research in Stockholm till her 80s.
I'd like to tell about Emilie du Chatelet. Gabrielle-Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, the daughter of the French court’s chief of protocol, married the marquis du Chatelet in 1725. She lived the life of a courtier and bore three children. But at age 27, she began studying mathematics seriously and then branched into physics. This interest intensified as she began an affair with the philosopher Voltaire, who also had a love of science. Their scientific collaborations—they outfitted a laboratory at du Chatelet’s home, Chateau de Cirey, and, in a bit of a competition, each entered an essay into a contest on the nature of fire (neither won)—outlasted their romance. Du Chatelet’s most lasting contribution to science was her French translation of Isaac Newton’s Principia, which is still in use today. At age 43, she fell in love with a young military officer and became pregnant; she died following complications during the birth of their child.
I'd like to tell about Chien-Shiung Wu She was born in China on May 31, 1912 she was studying at the Physics Department of the Central University of Nankin In 1956 Lee and Yang Wu offered an experiment to test their new theory of weak interactions In 1957 the law of conservation of parity can be violated in weak interactions The first woman president of the American Physical Society, as she received the National Medal of Merit in the field of science. In 1990, in honor of Wu has been named the asteroid 2752 Chien-Shiung Wu.
Gertrude Bell Elayon - American biochemist and pharmacologist. In 1988 Elayon won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with James Blake and her long-term leader George Hitchings "for the discovery of important principles of drug therapy." Gertrude B. Elion was born January 23, 1918 in New York to a Jewish immigrant family. She graduated from Hunter College, received a bachelor's degree in 1937, and New York University with a degree in chemistry in 1941. After that she worked as a laboratory assistant and a teacher until he became an assistant to George Hitchings in the pharmaceutical company Borough-Wellcome. Later received an honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the George Washington University. Among the drugs found Elayon, mercaptopurine (antileukemic drug), allopurinol (used for gout), acyclovir (an antiviral drug used to treat herpes) and others.
Talking about a famous woman scientist I want to highlight Rachel Carson. She was working in one of the oldest field of science - biology. She was a professional in marine biology and nature. Moreover she was a writer, she wrote a book named "The sea around us". This book is a prize-winning and best-selling book. Her book "Silent spring" caused a big resonance and increased the number of conservationists. Additionally her works contribute environmental movements in USA.
ReplyDeleteBarbara McClintock made a number of groundbreaking discoveries in genetics. She demonstrated the phenomenon of chromosomal crossover, which increases genetic variation in species. She also discovered transposition – genes moving about within chromosomes – often described as jumping genes, and showed that genes are responsible for switching the physical traits of an organism on or off.
ReplyDeleteBarbara McClintock was born on June 16, 1902 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Her family had little money, so her interest in research was viewed with skepticism. It was more important for her to marry, her family thought. Despite this, Barbara began studying at Cornell's College of Agriculture in 1919. She never married, choosing to devote her life to research. She was shy, but at the same time she also realized the importance of what she had achieved, not least of all in her role as an example for other women.
Barbara McClintock died aged 90 of natural causes in Huntington, New York, on September 2, 1992.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)- a philosopher of Jewish origin, a political theorist and historian, founder of the theory of totalitarianism.
ReplyDeleteTotalitarianism is the political mode aspiring to a full(total) control of the state in society and humans.
She lived in Germany and USA, where educated at Marburg, Freiburg and Heidelberg Universities.
Hannah paid special attention to the concept of freedom.In the words of Arendt on Earth lives "men, not man".
The legacy(наследие)of Arendt includes more than 450 works, varied in content but united by the idea of understanding the present.
Marie Curie (1867-1934) was a Polish-born French physicist famous for her work on radioactivity and twice a winner of the Nobel Prize. The life of this woman was unique. Radioactivity has become part of her life, in the direct and figurative sense of the word. Even today, almost 80 years after the scientist's death, her papers as "Radiation at" what can only watch them with protective equipment. Polish immigrant in the early XX century worked on the production of radioactive elements such as radium, polonium, and uranium. In this case no protection scientists have not used, do not even hesitate over what damage these elements may cause a living person. Long-term work with radium led to the development of leukemia. For negligence Marie Curie paid with her life, and in fact she even wore on the chest a vial with a radioactive element, as a kind of talisman. Academic heritage of this woman made her immortal. Maria received the Nobel Prize twice - in 1903 for hysics and in 1911 in chemistry. Also this brave woman scientist worked in a special Radium Institute, studying the radioactivity there.
ReplyDeleteToday women have occupied a greater name in the field of science, proving that they are capable of equating men in their abilities to conduct scientific research. They have taken significant positions in the scientific field as compared to the more traditional roles: mother, wife, and homemaker that existed in the past centuries.Italian Neurophysiologist, Rita Levi-Montalcini is one exceptional woman, who through her pioneering contribution and hard work has set an amazing example for other women to follow her footsteps. She won the 1986 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine which she shared with the biochemist Stanley Cohen.At 101 years, she has the stamina that many younger people might envy. On her workdays Rita gives equal time to her namesake brain research laboratory and her foundation to support African women with potential for scientific accomplishment.
ReplyDeleteToday i tell you about one famous scientist, whose name Irène Curie-Joliot. The elder daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie, Irène followed her parents’ footsteps into the lab. The thesis for her 1925 doctor of science was on the alpha rays of polonium, one of the two elements her mother discovered. The next year, she married Frédéric Joliot, one of her mother’s assistants at the Radium Institute in Paris. Irène and Frédéric continued their collaboration inside the laboratory, pursuing research on the structure of the atom. In 1934, they discovered artificial radioactivity by bombarding aluminum, boron and magnesium with alpha particles to produce isotopes of nitrogen, phosphorus, silicon and aluminum. They received the Nobel Prize in chemistry the next year, making Marie and Irène the first parent-child couple to have independently won Nobels. All those years working with radioactivity took a toll, however, and Irène died of leukemia in 1956.
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DeleteLise Meitner was determined to study radioactivity. When she finished school at the age of 14, higher education was banned for Austrian women. In Berlin she collaborated with Otto Hahn on the study of radioactive elements, but as Austrian Jewish woman (all three qualities were strikes against her), she was excluded from the main labs and lectures and allowed to work only in the basement. Meitner continued her work in Sweden and after Hahn discovered that uranium atoms were split when bombarded with neutrons, she calculated the energy released in the reaction and named the phenomenon “nuclear fission.” Lise refused to return to Germany after the war and continued her atomic research in Stockholm till her 80s.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to tell about Emilie du Chatelet.
ReplyDeleteGabrielle-Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, the daughter of the French court’s chief of protocol, married the marquis du Chatelet in 1725. She lived the life of a courtier and bore three children. But at age 27, she began studying mathematics seriously and then branched into physics. This interest intensified as she began an affair with the philosopher Voltaire, who also had a love of science. Their scientific collaborations—they outfitted a laboratory at du Chatelet’s home, Chateau de Cirey, and, in a bit of a competition, each entered an essay into a contest on the nature of fire (neither won)—outlasted their romance. Du Chatelet’s most lasting contribution to science was her French translation of Isaac Newton’s Principia, which is still in use today. At age 43, she fell in love with a young military officer and became pregnant; she died following complications during the birth of their child.
I'd like to tell about Chien-Shiung Wu
ReplyDeleteShe was born in China on May 31, 1912
she was studying at the Physics Department of the Central University of Nankin
In 1956 Lee and Yang Wu offered an experiment to test their new theory of weak interactions
In 1957 the law of conservation of parity can be violated in weak interactions
The first woman president of the American Physical Society, as she received the National Medal of Merit in the field of science. In 1990, in honor of Wu has been named the asteroid 2752 Chien-Shiung Wu.
Gertrude Bell Elayon - American biochemist and pharmacologist. In 1988 Elayon won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with James Blake and her long-term leader George Hitchings "for the discovery of important principles of drug therapy."
ReplyDeleteGertrude B. Elion was born January 23, 1918 in New York to a Jewish immigrant family. She graduated from Hunter College, received a bachelor's degree in 1937, and New York University with a degree in chemistry in 1941. After that she worked as a laboratory assistant and a teacher until he became an assistant to George Hitchings in the pharmaceutical company Borough-Wellcome. Later received an honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the George Washington University.
Among the drugs found Elayon, mercaptopurine (antileukemic drug), allopurinol (used for gout), acyclovir (an antiviral drug used to treat herpes) and others.