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. The girl’s character, her world-view and love to science were shaped by her mother. The father, Pierre, had also the huge impact on Irene. Unfortunately, he died tragically on 19th April 1906 while he

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• Joliot-Curie and artificial radioactivity

of five glass bulbs, which were combined and arranged in the shape of a triangle. In order to use this device to determine the amount of carbon in an organic compound, the substance first needed to

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• Liebig and nutrition

canvas paintings and engravings, and not only managed to give the shape and color of flowers, plants and insects, but also was a shrewd observer of the habits of caterpillars, flies, spiders, she was the

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• Sybilla Merian and Cocoons

smaller parts and are distinguishable from each other by their shape and size. According to Democritus, these atoms move in empty space and collide with each other. By creating specific combinations

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• Maria Skłodowska-Curie: discoverer of two radioactive elements
• Joliot-Curie and artificial radioactivity
• Rutherford’s Nuclear Atom
• Dalton and the atoms
• Lavoisier and the conservation of mass
• Democritus and the atoms

geometrical arrangement of the heat absorber and the mirror. The best shape for the mirror was an open-ended cone, with the cu- rious mathematical name of “frustocone,” that focused the sun’s rays along a

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• Mouchot and the solar cooker

thermoscope. This instrument consists of a glass capillary that is U-shaped. At both ends of the capillary, hollow spheres are attached. These spheres are blackened and made from very thin glass. Due to the

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• The hard work of experimenting James Prescott Joule, William Thomson, and the mechanical equivalent of heat.
• Mouchot and the solar cooker
• Rumford and calorics

the following experiments with the vessels of the ideal spherical shape. In 1654, during the parliamentary session of Reichstag in Regensburg, Guericke conducted few experiments in the presence of emperor

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• Guericke and vacuum

sea of virtual particle- antiparticle pairs, a space bent out of shape by gravitational warping – all these unimaginable to earlier physics and physicists. Activity 8 Using the list of ideas that describe

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• Guericke and vacuum

his electrophorus were arranging in strange, constellation-like shapes, named later the Lichtenberg figures. In February, 1778 he presented the paper on this topic during the session of the Göttingen

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• Lichtenberg and the electrophorus

Roudometof, 2005), we argue that domestic transnationalism equally shapes individual attitudes and iden- tities. Domestic transnationalism is defined as activities conducted in one’s home country that, [...] and advan- tages of regional integration. Such activities also shape pro-European sentiments – defined as a personal, affective identification with Europe, a positive evaluation of EU institutions and [...] college educated citizens. Although the level of education should shape the influence of TAs in general, it should for two reasons be especially consequential for the effect of DBTAs: (a) individuals

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• Monika Eigmüller
• Monika Eigmüller