Marie Curie's Accomplishments

John M. Barry addresses his feelings about scientists and their research through the piece from, “The Great Influenza,” an account of the 1918 flu epidemic. He adopts a speculative tone and utilizes rhetorical strategies such as fallacies, metaphors, and word choice to characterize scientists research. Barry describes the positive mind set and the requirements to be a scientists.

Lise Meitner is one of the most revolutionary women in science. She was a physicist and was most well known for being one of the first to discover nuclear fission. Her discoveries led to atomic weapons, which later helped the United States during World War II. Her research made her one of the most important women in the field of nuclear physics. However, she was not given proper recognition for her ground-breaking discovery at the time. During the 1940’s women in the field of science faced innumerable types of oppression. From toxic stigma to little job opportunity. All of the drawbacks women faced let many with little opportunity for advancement.

In conclusion, Alice Augusta Ball has achieved many remarkable accomplishments such as being a significant person in our history for developing the cure for leprosy and making it injectable. In her ongoing research Ball was able to aid thousands in their fight against leprosy. She had also been the first African-American and women to graduate with a master's degree in the sciences from the University of Hawaii and become the first woman to teach chemistry at the university. One can say that after learning about the accomplishments that Alice Augusta Ball made and the obstacles that she overcame, she made her own path to success no matter the fact of her being dead.

Science is a complex and integrated system and much of today’s society lacks the means and resources to understand it. However, many of the greatest discoveries and issues of the 21st century our happening in the world of science. By using the work of fiction, Allegra Goodman discusses the issues that frequently arise in the world of science in her book, Intuition. Goodman uses this work of fiction to explore issues raised in the world of science through the use of descriptive text, character relations and the use of emotions. This adds value to science issues as it allows the reader to relate to the characters, story and science in a unique perspective.

The following passage is from Angela’s Ashes written by Frank McCourt, who was born into deep poverty during the Great Depression. Read the following passage carefully and examine to what extent the author’s implication of education holds in the society today.

Jane Addams life as a child was not easy, she had a congenital spinal defect which led to her never being physically strong and her father who served for sixteen years as a state senator and fought as an officer in the Civil War always showed that his thoughts of women were that they were weak, and especially her with her condition. But besides that she lived a very privileged life since her father had many famous friends like the president Abraham Lincoln.

Who is Jane Goodall, by Roberta Edwards was such a great book, I would give it five star. This book tells a great true story about how a brave young woman named Jane Goodall born in 1934 in London, England who followed her dreams to study chimpanzees. Her love and compassion for the chimpanzees was very strong and shows in this book. It was very well written and fun to read, I could not put it down. It 's a good history as well. I think anyone would enjoy reading this book about Jane Goodall and the livelong work she has done. Jane Goodall was born in London, England. She always loved animals and wanted to do a study on them. So at age twenty-six, off she wen to Africa. Jane Goodall 's observations and hands on experiments working with chimpanzees was remarkable. One thing that really shocked me was that Jane risked her life working with the creatures she loved so much. She was beaten and thrown over a cliff by a chimpanzee, but yet she continued her adventure with them.

Did you know that Annie Cannon was able to classify around a thousand stars a day during the peak of her career? This paper will be focusing on the life, career, and legacy of Annie Jump Cannon. Annie Jump Cannon was hired by Edward Pickering, and she worked as “Pickering’s assistant at the Harvard College Observatory” (1). After that, she was credited with coming up with an easy system that divided the stars into seven spectral classes. The spectral classes were as follows: O, B, A, F, G, K, M. Annie Jump Cannon’s career ended after forty years, but her work paved the way for women in the scientific community and continues to inspire fellow female scientists. Cannon was able to work hard enough that people in the scientific community looked past the fact that she was partially deaf and a woman. Annie Cannon is an important woman in the history of science because she was able to overcome sexism and a disability while developing her own revolutionary and important version of stellar classification.

A spark lit by Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell ignited the inspiration of women all throughout the world by her astonishing achievement becoming the United States first female physician. Doing so, Dr. Blackwell established countless opportunities in the medical profession directed towards helping women throughout America. Undertaking her great feat was by no means leisurely nor frivolous, even so, she knew the benefits her sacrifices would formulate.

“Unbought and unbossed” is an interesting film that covers issues with African American women, and sexual politics that also offers a simple  literary perspective of a black woman who puts herself in the middle of at the some of the most political and important issues like: black nationalism, feminism and african american women, etc. Chisholm herself writes in her book “unbought and unbothered”, “…My present attitude toward politics as it is practiced in the United States: it is a beautiful fraud that has been imposed on the people for years, whose practitioners exchange gilded promises for the most valuable thing their victims own, their votes. And who benefits most? The lawyers. (Chapter 4)”. Shirley was very active in the National Association of the Advancement of Colored People

Nicholas Hitchon was raised on a farm in Yorkshire Dales. Nicholas, a seven-year-old boy and his one-year-old baby brother were the only children in the village. He enjoyed living in the countryside regardless of the loneliness which derived from it. He received his early education in a one-room school. At the age of seven years old, he was asked what were his thoughts on girlfriends. He refused to answer the question by deviating from the point. He thought it was best to leave the question unanswered. While living on the farm, and observing the natural world, he became fascinated by the phenomenon of the natural science disciplines, and he was keen "find out about the moon and all that". He seemed to be determined to learn the subject.

Marie Tallchief was an indian girl from Oklahoma she had a passion of dance. She started when she was three years old. She was born in 1925 and spent some of her childhood in the Osage reservation in Oklahoma. Ballet brought her out of her shell it made her happy. She would always get bullied because her last name because she was indian. There aren't many indian ballet dancers so not that many people believed in her but her grandma did

On July 6, 1921, Anne Frances Robbins was born in New York City, she was an only child of Kenneth Robbins, a salesman, and Edith Luckett Robbins, an aspiring actress. From an early age, Anne acquired the nickname “Nancy”. During Nancy’s infancy, her father, Kenneth left the marriage, leading to Edith to send her daughter to be raised by her aunt and uncle, Virginia and C. Audley Galbraith, in Bethesda, Maryland. While there, Nancy attended Sidwell Friends School. Her aunt would also travel with her to New York to visit her mother, when her mother was there for lengthy theater runs (1).

Norman Guinasso was a promising scholar when he confirmed his passion for math and science, and eventually oceanography. However, the real seeds to his eventual career were sown as early as second grade when he fell in love with numeric problem solving. He went on to take physics and advanced chemistry in high school, dedicating himself to doing what he enjoyed. At the time, in 1957, the Russians had just launched the first man-made satellite, Sputnik, to orbit around the earth, causing great concern and fear among Americans. Although this appeared to be a problematic event, it actually opened up a world of new opportunities for the scientific community.

Lise Meitner was a risk-taker. Lise was a woman and back then it was really hard for men to accept that women could do the same things as men. Lise accomplished many things that women were not known to do. Lise Meitner was the second woman to get her PhD in physics at the University of Vienna. This was an amazing accomplishment, since it was almost impossible for women to attend public universities. That did stop her, she kept trying with every fall. She became a big part in the making of the atomic bomb. She soon became known as “Mother of the atomic bomb”.The atomic bomb helped end world War II. She also was one of the people that discovered nuclear fission. Lise was a big risk-taker for no giving up cause she was a woman and also she feels