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Post subject: From when physics was actual rather then theoretical...  Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2014 6:30 pm |
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Post subject: Re: From when physics was actual rather then theoretical... Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2014 8:17 pm |
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What an awesome photo. I can't even imagine what that gathering may have been like. I go to my fair share of scientific meetings, but we mostly just drink beer and talk B.S. Just look at those names: Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, Langmuir, Planck, Schrodinger. Holy crap the beer must have been good!
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Post subject: Re: From when physics was actual rather then theoretical... Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2014 7:01 am |
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Just think how badass Marie Curie must have been.
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Post subject: Re: From when physics was actual rather then theoretical... Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2014 7:56 pm |
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I was thinking the same thing... did they treat her as the equal she was, or no? I'm hoping they did 
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Post subject: Re: From when physics was actual rather then theoretical... Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 4:17 am |
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Having read biographies of at least 4 of the folks in that photo, my understanding is that they treated her as a peer. These folks had little in the way of social graces or skills and cared little of social convention. They were all about the science. After all it was their peers who gave Curie the Nobel (twice).
Apparently she faced some prejudice (8 years after her Nobel win she lost a seat in the Academy of Science to a lesser - male - scientist) but this was also about her being a Polish Jew. Seems there was plenty of bigotry to go around.
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Post subject: Re: From when physics was actual rather then theoretical... Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 10:06 am |
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