Today I Learned Marie Curie Didn't Discover Radioactivity...
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ต.ค. 2024
- Today my childhood was uprooted as I uncovered the truth about Marie Curie and her husband, Pierre Curie. I learned what they actually did regarding radioactivity, and discovered the man who actually discovered radioactivity, Antoine Henri Becquerel.
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Oh, dear sir, Becquerel is far from being forgotten.
Love to hear that! 😁
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Becquerel has an SI unit named after him... pronunciation shouldn't be a problem really.
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Henri and Pierre refused to take the prize if Marie didn't also get it. This is High School physics, nothing more. My students just did presentations on many of the important people working on radioactivity (Becquerel, Curie, Soddy, Röntgen, Rutherford, H.G.Wells, Meitner, Oppenheimer, Szilard, Hahn etc).
Becquerel came from a family of well known scientists and engineers. Another important point is him and Pierre bending rules to make it possible for Marie to do her work. But he is in no way forgotten - unless you have been tought with a lousy curriculum.
My high school didn't even have a physics curriculum
@@RationalThinker118 it's mandatory here. 2 hours per week for 3 years is the minium
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Forgive me for not remembering his name but someone before Becquerel did stumble on the same phenomenon many years earlier. Becquerel was interested in phosphorescent mineral exposed to sun light. Not X rays. The phenomenon he discovered reminded him of the X-rays recently discovered. We should all be as curious as you are! Keep it up!
2:55 Radium is precipitated out with barium because they are in the same group and they are chemically very similar. Same goes with Polonium and Bismuth. They are just super hard to seperate.
Pierre Curie, with his brother, discovered something that is arguably more important than radioactivity or the discovery of the new elements. In fact, while almost no one reading this has any experience with radioactivity or Radium, 100 per cent of the people reading this are at this moment using something discovered by Pierre and his brother Paul. Namely piezoelectricity, the phenomena behind crystal oscillators, which every computer, cellphone, and many other objects use.
Ah yes, Becquerel, the radioactive glowing green dog from Homestuck. 👏
Also another fact The curies didn't tell us what is radioactivity... it was Rutherford who discovered alpha rays and tell us that it is helium nuclei that have been stripped of their planetary electrons, and each consists of two protons and two neutrons... and he discovered beta rays and tells us its electrones ... and he also proposed the laws of radioactive decay ... and it was Paul Villard who discovered the gamma rays and tell us its light ...😊
The Curie story is the same one found in school science textbooks, the problem starts there.
Good video
Becqurel didn't understand/describe/measure/denominate radioactivity, he stumbled upon it but mistakenly believed initially it was roentgen's x rays. The curies went much deeper from there in characterising the phenomenon, attributing it to particles, devised a sensitive electrometer to measure radioactivity and create the name radioactivity. The 1/4 weights is likely sexism, today it would be 1/3.
I mean, Pierre was a man. Lots of scientists out there do loads of important work and never get a prize, the prize is about being first and discovering, not working hard. Plus, a great many of the most important discoveries were by accident in a similar way.
The prize was supposed to be split between Henri and Pierre, but they refused unless Marie was included. This is probably how it came to be.
The Nobel Prize for Black holes was also 50/25/25 among Penrose/Ghez/Genzel, Penrose doing the "theoretically, there has to be" with Hawking and Ghez and Genzel (well, their PhD students and assistants, actually) doing the observational work and analysis.
The curies didn't tell us what is radioactivity... it was Rutherford who discovered alpha and beta rays and proposed the laws of radioactive decay ... and it was Paul Villard who discovered the gamma rays ...
It’s the other way around: Marie Curie would have been unknown today if she had been a man.
@@peterfireflylund nah. She probably would be about as well known as Becquerel, Rutherford, Bohr or Planck. Otoh, she was an exceptional scientist in its own right - would things have been easier, that might have opened other opportunities - which might have made "him" even more well-known.
Seriously, you didn't read Becquerel's name in you physics book?
I didn't have a physics curriculum unfortunately 😔
Why did you ever learn that she did?