American Physical Society. Annual Meeting (2017: New Orleans, La)
Marie Curie - A 150th Birthday Celebration [sound recording], 2017 March 16.
Audio recording of session V40 of the March 2017 annual meeting of the American Physical Society, held in New Orleans, Louisiana in March 2017. Talks (and speakers) include: "Marie Curie: the Curie Institute in Senegal to Nuclear Physics" (Paul Gueye); "Marie Curie and Mildred Dresselhaus, inspirations to women in science" (Cherry Murray); "Marie Curie: Physicist and Woman" (Ruth Howes); "The growth of nuclear daughters" (Sherry Yennello). Topics discussed include Marie Curie, radioactivity, nuclear physics, Senegal, Hampton University, Mildred Dresselhaus, women in physics, Pierre Curie, Nobel Prize, the Sorbonne.
This professional society of educators, industrial and government research workers, and students of physics and related fields, was established in 1899 to promote the advancement and diffusion of the knowledge of physics. It was a founding Member Society of the American Institute of Physics. The American Physical Society (APS) meetings are a forum for scientists to gather and share research results on a wide range of physics and physics-related topics.
Curie, Marie, 1867-1934
Curie, Pierre, 1859-1906.
Dresselhaus, M. S.
Hampton University (Va.)
Universit ̌de Paris
HBCUs (Historically black colleges and universities
Nobel Prizes
Nuclear physics
Radioactivity
Women in physics
Women in science
Africa.
Guÿe, Paul
Howes, Ruth (Ruth Hege)
Murray, Cherry Ann
Yennello, Sherry J.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA