26 September 2018 | Author/Destination: Editorial / Redaktion | Rubric: Portrait
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Marie Curie
Marie Skłodowska Curie, born Maria Salomea Skłodowska was a
Polish and naturalized-French physicist and
chemist who conducted pioneering research on
radioactivity. She was the
first woman to win a
Nobel Prize, the first person and only woman to
win twice, the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences, and was part of the
Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. She was also the first woman to become a professor at the
University of Paris, and in 1995 became the first woman to be entombed on her own merits in the
Panthéon in
Paris.
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23 May 2018 | Author/Destination: Editorial / Redaktion | Rubric: Portrait
Reading Time: 16 minutes
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was a German
mechanical engineer and
physicist, who, on 8 November 1895, produced and detected
electromagnetic radiation in a
wavelength range known as
X-rays or Röntgen rays, an achievement that earned him the first
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901. In honour of his accomplishments, in 2004 the
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) named
element 111,
roentgenium, a radioactive element with multiple unstable isotopes, after him.
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