Wednesday 27 August 2008

COMPARE - CONTRAST ESSAY

BIOGRAPHIES ALBERT EINSTEIN AND MARIE CURIE
















In this speech I’m going to talk about Albert Einstein’s and Marie Curie’s life. An extraordinary people who left a legacy that we should never forget.

As I can see, they have lots in common, they both were born more or less in the same century, the XVI century, they love science, they were interesting people around the world whom left a legacy although they were from a very poor families, they could grown up thanks of their intelligence and strong character. They were bound to all they did and never fell down.
At first some people were against of them but both based on their knowledge they achieve their gold’s. With a strong behaviour they never gave up, were absolutely brilliant people, both contributed with the world science thanks for their theories.

Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany, while Marie Curie was born in Warsaw. Einstein always appeared to have a clear view of the problems of physics and the determination to solve them. He had a strategy of his own and was able to visualize the main stages on the way to his goal. Marie Curie after her husband death, she took his place as Professor of General Physics in the Faculty of Sciences, was the first time a woman had held this position. Her early researches, together with her husband, were often performed under difficult conditions, laboratory arrangements were poor and both had to undertake much teaching to earn a livelihood. The discovery of radioactivity in 1896 inspired the Curies in their brilliant researches and analyses which led to the isolation of polonium Curie developed methods for the separation of radium from radioactive residues in sufficient quantities to allow for its characterization and the careful study of its properties, therapeutic properties in particular. In the other hand, Einstein realized the inadequacies of Newtonian mechanics and his special theory of relativity stemmed from an attempt to reconcile the laws of mechanics with the laws of the electromagnetic field. He investigated the thermal properties of light with a low radiation density and his observations laid the foundation of the photon theory of light.

Albert Einstein received honorary doctorate degrees in science, medicine and philosophy from many European and American universities. He gained numerous awards in recognition of his work. The importance of Marie Curie's work is reflected in the numerous awards bestowed on her. She received many honorary science, medicine and law degrees and honorary memberships of learned societies throughout the world. 1911 she received a second Nobel Prize, this time in Chemistry, in recognition of her work in radioactivity.

1 comment:

TATIANA said...

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