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At Yale, More than Mere Curie-osities
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Business New Haven
11/10/2003
By: BNH
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| NEW HAVEN - An exhibition in the rotunda of the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library at the Yale School of Medicine will commemorate the centennial of the awarding of the Nobel Prize in physics to Marie Curie, Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel in October 1903. The Curies discovered and investigated properties of two newly discovered radioactive elements - polonium and radium- laying the foundation for a new branch of science and a new form of medical treatment. Marie Curie's work was part of a succession of major discoveries that transformed classical 19th-century physics into 20th-century atomic and nuclear physics. For these achievements, she earned two Nobel prizes: the first in physics (1903) and another in chemistry (1911). Sponsored by the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, the exhibit runs through mid-March.
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