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Today we celebrate the birthday of not one, but two amazing women in science! 🤗🎉Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1867), who discovered #radium & #polonium & pioneered #radioactivity, & Lise Meitner (1878), whose brilliance uncovered the physics behind #nuclearfission. Happy birthday! #OTD #WomenInStem #WomeninScience
Black-and-white portrait of Maria Skłodowska-Curie, 1903. She is seated in a chair, wearing a dark dress with a light, patterned collar, resting her head on one hand and looking directly at the camera. public domain
Black-and-white photo of Lise Meitner around 1906 in Vienna. She is wearing a long dress and a hat, standing among large plants and looking to the side. public domain
#WomenInSTEM #otd #womeninscience #radioactivity #radium #polonium #nuclearfission

"The moment of discovery" does not always exist: the scientist's work is too tenuous, too divided, for the certainty of success to crackle out suddenly in the midst of his laborious toil like a stroke of lightening, dazzling him by its fire.

In: Eve Curie - Madame Curie - Chapter XII (p. 158)

~Marie Curie #BOTD in 1867.

#physics #radioactivity #womeninStem

Marie Curie in her laboratory The measurement of radioactivity requires great dexterity and inventive spirit. It was made possible with an experimental advice conceived by Pierre Curie, which makes it possible to measure very small charges. The image shows Curie in profile, facing left, seated at a wooden laboratory table. She wears a simple, long-sleeved laboratory gown, gathered at the shoulders and waist . Her posture is upright and attentive; one hand gently adjusts a control dial, while the other rests near a piece of scientific equipment. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Maria_Sk%C5%82odowska-Curie?uselang=fr#/media/File:Marie_Curie_in_her_laboratory.jpg
#physics #WomenInSTEM #botd #radioactivity

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