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Dreana · 05-24-2007, 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Rinion

Nothing.

However she was part of the TEAM that discovered Polonium and Radium.

"In 1903, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded Pierre Curie, Marie Curie, and Henri Becquerel the Nobel Prize in Physics, "in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel."

From nobelprize.org:

"in recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element"

A little more reliable I would say than wikapedia. Collaboration or not, she was still given credit for it.

And she invented methods to use those radioactive materials in ways to help cure people, such as destroying diseased tissue and eradicating tumors.

Faabio · 05-24-2007, 03:50 PM

She would of never accomplished anything without a man backing her research, which proves my point.

Dreana · 05-24-2007, 03:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Faabio

She would of never accomplished anything without a man backing her research, which proves my point.

At that time, you are probably right.

Faabio · 05-24-2007, 03:57 PM

At this time, I'm still right~

Rinion · 05-24-2007, 03:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Dreana

And she invented methods to use those radioactive materials in ways to help cure people, such as destroying diseased tissue and eradicating tumors.

you don't Invent a method you discover and Develop Methods. Inventing is actually creating something entirely new that previously did not exist in the known Universe.

Laodaron · 05-24-2007, 03:58 PM

The funniest part in all of this is that people can list certain particulars over the last several hundred years that women invented, yet, there are virtually billions of inventions. I'm not sexist by any stretch, but for the people trying to defend women, quit using 1 example. It doesn't help the gender at all. It in fact makes it much worse using a singular example when there are so many inventions and discoveries.
Oh, and if you are a dude playing a chick in game, you are fucked up in the head.
Using non-SOGA is a waste. If you don't like the asian overtones in EQ2, find a new game. They are smoother and the game all around presents better with SOGA. But that's a new discussion. Playing a chick in game is sad if you're a dude.

Worse, though, is getting pwned by a dude playing a chick, losing your money or items, and thinking you were getting a RL e-lover, THEN finding out it was all fake, and coming to a flame board and starting a topic on it cause you got your feelings hurt.

Dreana · 05-24-2007, 04:00 PM

Invent \In*vent"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Invented; p. pr. & vb.
n. Inventing.] [L. inventus, p. p. of invenire to come
upon, to find, invent; pref. in- in + venire to come, akin to
E. come: cf. F. inventer. See Come.]
1. To come or light upon; to meet; to find. [Obs.]

And vowed never to return again, Till him alive or
dead she did invent. --Spenser.

2. To discover, as by study or inquiry; to find out; to
devise; to contrive or produce for the first time; --
applied commonly to the discovery of some serviceable
mode, instrument, or machine.

Thus first Necessity invented stools. --Cowper.

3. To frame by the imagination; to fabricate mentally; to
forge; -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to invent the
machinery of a poem; to invent a falsehood.

Really?

Laodaron · 05-24-2007, 04:03 PM

Arguing semantics FTW.
Inventing used in the way it was here means creating something new.
Discovering is finding something that already existed, but no one knew it.

Rinion · 05-24-2007, 04:03 PM

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1890-1920
Radiation therapy had its beginning as a treatment of cancer soon after the discovery of x-rays by Roentgen, radioactivity by Becquerel and radium by Marie and Pierre Curie, which occurred shortly before the turn of the century. The first reported cure of cancer, a basil cell epithelioma, by this treatment modality appeared in the literature in 1899. During this time it was viewed as the "Dark Ages" of the evolution of radiation therapy as a treatment modality for cancer with, radium used as the source of radiation delivery.
Surgeons or dermatologists administered the radiation therapy treatment, with little understanding or knowledge of the physical nature and biological effects of radiation. There was no method of calculating the radiation dosage. The equipment used to deliver the radiation was primitive, temperamental and limited in energy so that only the cancers that were superficial cancers could be treated.
The radiation therapy of this era involved a massive exposure of radiation to a large area of the body with the hope that the tumor would be destroyed with a single treatment. Needless to say, many complications occurred after treatment with radiation due to the destruction of the normal tissues. The literature of this decade has many examples of tissue necrosis, infection, and death as a result of treatment. The rate of tumor recurrence was also reported as high.
"MANY OF THE FEARS AND MISCONCEPTIONS PRESENTLY RELATED TO RADIATION BEGAN DURING THIS EARLY PERIOD OF DEVELOPMENT."

Cool so she developed a method to radiate and kill things.. to bad it killed everything with such high doses. However, it was improved upon by someone else.

Taken from
http://www.cvtcollege.org/Ac_Program...y/history.html
Not Wiki btw.

Dreana · 05-24-2007, 04:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Laodaron

The funniest part in all of this is that people can list certain particulars over the last several hundred years that women invented, yet, there are virtually billions of inventions. I'm not sexist by any stretch, but for the people trying to defend women, quit using 1 example. It doesn't help the gender at all. It in fact makes it much worse using a singular example when there are so many inventions and discoveries.

He only said to name one (without using Google) so I did. Then I had to defend my answer.