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Maria Skłodowska-Curie: discoverer of two radioactive elements Listen The end of the 19th century is coming. It’s not the successful time for Poland. Due to the partitions, it’s divided between Austri
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Joliot-Curie and artificial radioactivity Listen Irene was alone at home as her husband Frederic had to give a lecture early in the morning. Their two children were taken for a walk by the nanny, and
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The hard work of experimenting Listen Manchester, in the early 1840s. Manchester was a busy industrial town in these days, actually, it could be named as the industrial cen-ter of England, and in thos
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Scientific Partnership Listen James Prescott Joule, a Manchester owner of a brewery stood in the lecture hall and looked into the faces of the audience that was going to listen to his talk. It was the
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Eijkman and Beri-Beri Listen It was a lazy summer afternoon in 1886 in Berlin, Germany at the popular Café Bauer. In one corner, a figure sporting a bushy moustache was hunched over his afternoon coff
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Lind and scurvy Listen It was a cloudy morning, May 20, 1747 year. Liner HMS "Salisbury" under full sail riped waters of the Gulf of Biscay. Captain George Edgcumbe stood on the bridge and smiled at t
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Rutherford’s Nuclear Atom Listen Ernest Rutherford was born in New Zealand into a poor farming family in 1871. When the young "Ern," as his family called him, received his first science book at the ag
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Lavoisier and the conservation of mass Listen The month of September had been nice in 1782, and Paris was a very enjoyable town at this time of the year. One morning saw a couple walking from their br
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Democritus and the atoms Listen Plato was walking home, it was a hot afternoon, and he just wanted to get back into the cool space of his house. He was in a rush, despite the temperature, not only bec
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Chemistry Listen Here, a fictive dispute between Democritus and Plato shall represent the counterpart images in the antiquities on the composition of matter. It is remarkable, that Democritus, whose i