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The Radium Girls
The Radium Girls were the first people who worked, for years, with one of the world's most radioactive substances -- and suffered the consequences.
Curated Video
The Elements: Radium
Learn why radium is so radioactive it can both cause and cure cancer. Chemistry - Periodic Table - Learning Points. Marie and Pierre Curie discovered radium in 1898. Radium is a product of the radioactive decay of uranium. Exposure to...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Dava Sobel - The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit the Path for Women in Science
Dava Sobel, a longtime science writer, came to the subject of women in science relatively late in her career. While researching her book The Glass Universe, about women astronomers at Harvard, she was struck by how much she had...
SciShow
The Radium Girls
The Radium Girls were the first people who worked, for years, with one of the world’s most radioactive substances -- and suffered the consequences. Hosted by: Hank Green ------------- Today's President of Spaceef='http://goo.gl/kLT65q'...
The March of Time
1921: SCIENCE: Physicist & chemist Marie Curie (1867-1934) sitting in chair w/ two women standing behind, CU Marie, CU Male hands holding gift box w/ glass vile holding gram of radium gift, Marie standing w/ President Harding (head cropped)
MOT 1921: SCIENCE: Physicist & chemist Marie Curie (1867-1934) sitting in chair w/ two women standing behind, CU Marie, CU Male hands holding gift box w/ glass vile holding gram of radium gift, Marie standing w/ President Harding (head...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: History's deadliest colors - J. V. Maranto
When radium was first discovered, its luminous green color inspired people to add it into beauty products and jewelry. It wasn't until much later that we realized that radium's harmful effects outweighed its visual benefits....
SciShow
How Ancient Roman Baths Could Save People and the Planet
Back in the Victorian Era, Englanders thought that the famous Roman Baths were so healing because there was radium in the water. And there was, but that wasn't the real secret. Turns out that the baths are teeming with microbes that...
Wonderscape
Marie Curie: A Pioneer in Science
This video is a lesson about the life and achievements of Marie Curie, a pioneering female scientist. It covers her early life in Poland, her struggles to pursue education in France, her marriage to Pierre Curie, and their joint research...
Red Rock Films
Women's History Activator: Marie Curie
Event: October 1921. Scientist Marie Curie, winner of two Nobel prizes, visits the White House to accept a gift of one gram of radium. Story: Marie Curie worked hard to study science and was sometimes rejected because of her gender. She...
Professor Dave Explains
Periodic Table Part 3: Alkaline Earth Metals (Be, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Ra)
It's time to check out Group 2 on the periodic table, the alkaline earth metals. This includes beryllium, magnesium, calcium, strontium, barium, and radium. What can we say about their properties, reactivities, and applications? Let's...
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10 Dangerous Fashion Trends
Life Noggin
Unbelievable Myths From The 1920s DEBUNKED!
In the 1920's, people used to believe some wacky things! Watch more: Unbelievable Myths From The 1950s DEBUNKED! ►►pSubscribeoutube.com/watch?v=K5BoE8eBzoI&t=3mercht=PL8L0MzSk_V6JtEDRfRMybPatreonqYSlO&index=25' targeFacebookk'...
One Minute History
Madame Marie Curie - Empowerment in Action - One Minute History
Madame Marie Curie is the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. She is awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics, along with her husband Pierre and Henri Becquerel, for developing the theory of ‘radioactivity’. In 1911, Curie wins a second...
One Minute History
115 Madame Curie - One Minute History
Madame Marie Curie is the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. She is awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics, along with her husband Pierre and Henri Becquerel, for developing the theory of ‘radioactivity’. In 1911, Curie wins a second...
World Science Festival
A Woman of Genius
Get a glimpse into the life of the famed physicist and chemist, born Marie Sklodowska on November 7, 1867. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize (eventually two), and her work isolating the two radioactive elements, Polonium and...
Atlas Pro
The Rarest Element on Earth
Is it a coincidence that I'm using all the same keywords from my most popular video? Did this video really need to be 12 minutes long? Do people ever actually read the description? I don't have the answers to any of these. music provided...
Curated Video
Women in Chemistry: Heroes of the Periodic Table
To honor women’s history month in the international year of the periodic table, today we wanted to share the story of two of chemistry’s most brilliant and bold women and their paths of elemental discovery -- because what they brought to...
Periodic Videos
Beautiful Elements - Periodic Table of Videos
Tell us which one you like best? Leave us a comment. These portraits of elements are an exhibit was part of "The Elements" exhibition at Science Gallery, Dublin, Ireland. Included are Mercury, Iron, Gold, Platinum, Uranium, Calcium,...
The March of Time
AMA approved Treatments
MOT 1937: TREATMENT: Large X-Ray machine over patient CU dial output meter technician w/ controls outside room. Radium Therapy machine. EXT Memorial Hospital New York. NEWSPAPER article Rockefeller grant for Cancer Hospital. VS Machines...