2012-2013 Go Big Read: Radioactive : The Nobel Prize
About the Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in ChemistryThe Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1911 was awarded to Marie Curie "in recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element".
- The Nobel Prize in PhysicsThe Nobel Prize in Physics 1903 was divided, one half awarded to Antoine Henri Becquerel "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his discovery of spontaneous radioactivity", the other half jointly to Pierre Curie and Marie Curie, née Sklodowska "in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel".
Selected Titles
- Nobel Prize Winners by Tyler Wasson (Editor); Carl G. Bernhard (Introduction by)Call Number: AS911 N9 N59 1987ISBN: 0824207564Publication Date: 1987-01-01Dictionary of Nobel Prize winners from the 20th century.
- Nobel Prize Women in Science by Sharon Bertsch McGrayneCall Number: Q141 M358 1998ISBN: 0309072700Publication Date: 2001-03-12From Publishers Weekly:
Only nine of the more than 300 Nobel prizes awarded in science since 1901 have been won by women, notes science writer Bertsch as she sets the context for the biographical essays that follow. Examining the careers and lives of 14 women scientists "who either won a Nobel Prize or played a crucial role in a Nobel winning project," she movingly depicts their battles against gender discrimination for recognition and respect and she describes the self-conflict about their roles. Subjects range from Marie Curie (1867-1934) to such contemporaries as Rosalyn Yalow, awarded a Nobel Prize in 1977 for her work as a medical physicist, and Jocelyn Bell Burnell, an astrophysicist credited, at the age of 24, with the 1968 discovery of pulsars, who made large personal sacrifices for her science.