Re: NY Times Editorial on Marie Curie

["J. J. Rozental" <josrozen@netmedia.net.il>]

At 12:31 PM 11/23/98 -0600, you wrote:
>Radsafers -
>Today's NY Times has a short editorial  entitled Marie Curie and A Century of
>Radiation.  It starts out saying nice things about Madame Curie and then
>refers to a current exhibit at the NY Academy of Science on the history of
>radioactivity.  Then it goes on to say:  " [the exhibit] suggests that the
>history of radioactivity during the past century divides into two parts,
>before 1934, when natural radioactivity was the focus of scientific study, and
>after 1934, when the first man-made radioactive elements were created.  Most
>laypeople are likely to feel that the century divides a little more neatly
>than that:  before 1945, when the first atomic bombs were detonated, and after
>1945.

Dear Joyce and Radsafers,

        * She became the first to win two  Nobel Prizes: Physics, in 1903
and chemistry 1911;
        
        * She was the first mother-Nobel Prize Laureate of daughter-Nobel
Prize Laureate. Her oldest daughter Irene Joliot-Curie also won a Nobel
Prize for Chemistry (1935).


Jose Julio Rozental
<josrozen@netmedia.net.il>
Israel

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