{"id":122698,"date":"2023-12-03T12:33:55","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T17:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=122698"},"modified":"2023-12-03T12:34:14","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T17:34:14","slug":"doctor-curmudgeon-the-mother-of-modern-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=122698","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Curmudgeon\u00ae The Mother of Modern Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1545664804358300\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1545664804358300\" data-ad-slot=\"8616314829\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=122698\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=122698\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-122702 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Book-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Book-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Book.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Diane Batshaw Eisman, M.D. FAAP Doctor Eisman is in Family Practice in Aventura, Florida with her partner, Dr. Eugene Eisman, an internist\/cardiologist<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c1903 Nobel Prize in Physics<\/p>\n<p>1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry<\/p>\n<p>1921 Willard Gibbs Award (presented by the Chicago Section of the American Chemical Society)<\/p>\n<p>1931 Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy dear child those are only a few of the honors bestowed upon Marie Curie. It was some time in 1891 that I heard her speak at a student gathering at the University of Paris. I had given a lecture the day before. Her questions were astonishingly insightful. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter meeting this brilliant young woman I delayed my return to London. It was obvious that Marie was a brave soul, a pioneer on her way to breakthroughs in Science. I wanted to spend more time with her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My Great-Great-Great Grandmother, Dr. Cranky Wangshaw-Vesalius-Steinberger was a rare woman, who became a physician in that era. She was a half-sister to Dr. John Watson. And we all know of Dr. Watson who had a most eminent patient, Sherlock Holmes.<\/p>\n<p>Grandma Cranky occasionally visits me, usually in the evening as I am preparing for bed.<\/p>\n<p>Grandma Cranky continued, \u201cDr. Marie Salomea Sklodowska Curie received many accolades, awards and medals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou should be aware that Dr. Curie was first person to be honored with the Nobel Prize in two different fields, Chemistry and in Physics, and the first woman to receive a Nobel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After Grandma Cranky whisked away, I read more about this woman. Indeed, she was the \u201cMother of Modern Physics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 1891 Marie went to Paris to study Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics at the University of Paris.<br \/>\nAnd it was in Paris, that she met a brilliant French physicist by the name of Pierre Curie.<\/p>\n<p>Working together they discovered a new radioactive element. It was named polonium in honor of the country of Marie\u2019s birth, Poland.<\/p>\n<p>It was a short time later that the pair discovered radium.<\/p>\n<p>A colleague of the Curies, Dr. Henri Becquerel had just discovered a fascinating new property that Marie later named \u2018radioactivity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She was able to lay her hands on pure radium and did a Ph.D. on the study of radioactivity.<\/p>\n<p>Finally! A woman was the recipient of a Nobel! In 1903, it was shared by Becquerel and the Curies for their discovery of radioactivity. Becquerel\u2019s research led him to find that uranium spontaneously emitted some kind of rays, which could penetrate like X-rays.<\/p>\n<p>In those days, nobody was aware of the dangers of radioactivity.<\/p>\n<p>According to Barbara Tasch, who wrote in Business Insider, Bill Bryson penned in his wonderful book, \u201cA Short History of Nearly Everything,\u201d that Dr. Curie\u2019s personal items, (such as her lab notes, furniture and clothing) are still radioactive.<\/p>\n<p>Those intriguing lab notebooks ae stored in Pars at the Bibliotheque National in appropriately lead lined boxes.<\/p>\n<p>And, if you really want to see those manuscripts, you must sign a waiver of liability and wear protective gear because they are all still contaminated with radium 226.<\/p>\n<p>Marie Curie died of aplastic anemia, which is linked to her work with radioactive radium and polonium.<\/p>\n<p>Even her body is still radioactive and lies in a lead-lined coffin.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Curmudgeon suggests &#8220;Bitter Medicine\u201d, Dr. Eugene Eisman&#8217;s story of his experiences&#8211;from the humorous to the intense&#8212;as a young army doctor serving in the Vietnam War.<br \/>\nBitter Medicine by Eugene H. Eisman, M.D. &#8211;on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bitter-Medicine-Doctors-Year-Vietnam\/dp\/0615874347\">Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Doctor Curmudgeon\u00ae is Diane Batshaw Eisman, M.D., a physician-satirist. This column originally appeared on SERMO, the leading global social network for doctors.<br \/>\nSERMO <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sermo.com\">www.sermo.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #808000;\"><a style=\"color: #808000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.authorhouse.com\/en\/bookstore\/bookdetails\/232300-BOXING-INTERVIEWS-OF-A-LIFETIME\">Click Here to Order Boxing Interviews Of A Lifetime By &#8220;Bad&#8221; Brad Berkwitt<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Diane Batshaw Eisman, M.D. FAAP Doctor Eisman is in Family Practice in Aventura, Florida with her partner, Dr. Eugene Eisman, an internist\/cardiologist \u201c1903 Nobel Prize in Physics 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1921 Willard Gibbs Award (presented by the Chicago Section of the American Chemical Society) 1931 Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":122702,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[31589],"class_list":["post-122698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-doctor-curmudgeon-the-mother-of-modern-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122698"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/122702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}