Schools : Marie Curie: 100th Anniversary Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Portrait Marie Curie, 1921

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"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand, so that we may fear less."

Marie Curie

Google doodle Marie Curie's 144th Brithday
https://www.google.com/doodles/

I am a big fan of Google doodles! You know it! It is not the first time I wrote about Google doodles. Why? Because doodles can be interesting resources for educators.

Today, Google honors Marie Curie, physicist-chemist, with an impressionistic doodle on her 144th birth anniversary. 

Marie Curie was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes : Physics and Chemistry. She is the only woman to win a Nobel Prize in two fields. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903 (with her husband, Paul Curie) and Nobel Prize for Chemistry, in 1911. Marie Curie is the first person honored with two Nobel Prizes. 

"The doodle shows Marie Curie working at a table. The Google logo looks like a radioactive trace."

Of course you hear about 2011 as the International Year of Chemistry ! And it ends soon. So, let's talk about it, taking advantage of this tribute

http://www.chemistry2011.org

I already wrote about this important event on two or three posts. And in all of them, I emphasized Marie Curie. 

First on International Woman's Day Centenary, the official theme was "Equal access to education, training and science and technology: Pathway to decent work for women".

Google doodle Robert Bunsen's 200 Birthday
https://www.google.com/doodles/robert-bunsens-200th-birthday

After, on my post Google celebrates Robert Bunsen and 'International Year of Chemistry 2011' where I mentioned the video message by Irina Bokova's, Director General of UNESCO, for the Opening of the International Year of Chemistry (IYC) 2011.

Nobel Prize 1911 Marie Curie

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"Marie Curie was honored with a Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1911). Since then, only  3 women having been honored on this way. It's important to encourage young women to contribute their talent to this exciting field."

Irina Bokova, Director General UNESCO

Again, on my post Rap in Chemistry curriculum? Fantastic! Inspired by a good and funny video created by the rapper Oort Kuiper  who wrote here

And today! Marie Curie is an inspiring woman for all young girls who choose Science and Chemistry to complete their higher education.

Marie Curie Actions EU

http://europa.eu/

Last September, Polish Presidency of the European Union and the European Commission organised the Marie Curie Researchers  Symposium Science - Passion, Mission, Responsabilities to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Marie Curie Actions and the 100th anniversary of Marie Sklodowska-Curie's Nobel Prize for Chemistry.

http://www.chemistry2011.org/

The Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles, CA, is producing the world premiere of Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie. It will run from November 1 through December 11, 2011.

"Radiance delves into the life and romance of one of the most brilliant female scientists in history.  Famous for her groundbreaking research in radioactivity, Curie was the only person ever to win two Nobel Prizes in multiple sciences, but not without a struggle. For all the answers that come to her in the lab, Curie’s life is peppered with questions of how to realize the passion she has for both knowledge and love." 

Ciclo de conferências :uma questão de química

http://www.gulbenkian.pt/

Em Portugal, a Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian promove um "Ciclo de Conferências Ciência - Uma questão de química".

É já amanhã, dia 8 Novembro 2011, que terá lugar a conferência  As Químicas do Nobel por Raquel Gonçalves-Maia, às 18:00, a transmitir aqui (compatível com iPhone, iPad e Android).

http://ec.europa.eu

Education:

It is a wonderful year to promote Science and Chemistry studies for girls in the schools and universities. Marie Curie is the best example that educators could share with female students.

Marie Curie demonstrates that young women who choose scientific careers, stunning success is possible.

Other resources :

• 100 years : Marie Cury & the Great War here

• A History of Chemistry here

• Life Without Chemistry - Chemistry at Trinity College Dublin - Professor David Grayson. TCD Open Day January 2011 here

"I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist is his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale."

Marie Curie


(in 2011, I think Marie Curie would say 'her' and 'she')


G-Souto

07.11.2011
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References:

Marie Curie Actions | EC Research & Innovation
http://www.mariecurie2011.pl/Default.aspx?id=3

Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie | IYC 2011
http://www.chemistry2011.org/participate/activities/show?id=1620

Rap in Chemistry curriculum? Fantastic!

http://www.chemistry2011.org

This year is the International Year fo Chemistry, as the Chemistry teachers know! And I am sure that they are preparing fantatisc activities to share with the students to motivate them in Chemistry curriculum, now that the real school-season is there.

After my post Google celebrates Robert Bunsen and 'International Year of Chemistry 2011', another post about Chemistry in the classroom.

Here you have a fantastic and funny video to share: Rapping elements! Rap?! Yes, you read it well. Rapping elements. 

So, watch the video below: 

Quite amazing, isn't it? And inspiring! Don't you agree with me? The creative rapper Oort Kuiper  wrote here

"Many people have heard of Tom Lehrer's 'The Elements' song. One day I decided to search for it online to memorise some stuff about the elements and found out that Daniel 'Harry Potter' Radcliffe had recently recited it on TV. I wondered what he (and the viewers) might have learnt about the elements by listening to it but shock horror...after listening I realised the song hadn't actually told me anything about The Periodic Table, except what's on it! 

So I decided to do my own song, specifically about The Periodic Table. 

The chorus contains the first 36 elements in order up to Krypton. 

The first verse covers general info about the Periodic table.

The second verse lists the Alkali Metals and The Alkaline Earth Metals.

The third verse lists the Halogens and the Noble Gases.

Let me know if this rap helps you at all... or if it doesn't. (...) good luck with your studies, or thirst for knowledge."

Oort Kuiper (Rapper)

Well, Kuiper is a student too. And inspired by Harry Potter star, Daniel Rafcliff, he decided to create his own rap to memorise the elements for Chemistry lesson.

Education:

As you see, the students are very creative if we can listen to them.

I'm sure your students are too. In a trans-curriculum - Chemistry, Languages and Music - propose your class to create different songs - rap! they really like it - about different subjects from Chemistry curriculum.

Remember! Educators can share, discuss and plan ideas for IYC 2011 here. There already a lot of activities and projects for different countries and schools on the webpage of IYC2011.

Students can plan activities with their educators in the classroom and then share for IYC 2011, by country,  here

And to add an event or events to the list, go to the Activities section and submit a description of the activity. 


Typical events or activities could be at the local, state, regional, or national level, and might include... read more

Some conclusions:

The activities can be developed in Elementary education and Secondary Education. It's up to the educators motivate the students. Never forget it!

You will be delighted how the students are amazing when they are free to demonstrate their creativity in the classroom.

Don't underestimate your students capacities, even the reluctant ones to learn some difficult subjects in the school curricula. 

Encourage the interest of young people in chemistry;

Generate enthusiasm for the creative future of chemistry;

Celebrate the role of women in chemistry or major historical events in chemistry, including the centenaries of Mme. Curie’s Nobel Prize and the founding of the International Association of Chemical Societies.

Have a good IYC 2011 in your school!

G-Souto

29.08.2011

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Credits: video University of Nottingham

References:

International Year of Chemistry 2011 

http://www.chemistry2011.org/

International Year of Chemistry 2011/UNESCO

http://www.unesco.org

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Schools : Robert Bunsen & International Year of Chemistry 2011 : resources

Robert Wilhelm Bunsen

 engraving by C. Cook, 1850s

https://www.britannica.com/

"Science or chemistry was never one of my stronger classes in school, but I get nostalgic every time I see a chemistry set and a Bunsen burner." 

Born March 30 or 31 - biographers diverge - 1811, in Göttingen, Germany, the German chemist who, with Gustav Kirchhoff, about 1859 observed that each element emits a light of characteristic wavelength.

Such studies opened the field of spectrum analysis, which became of great importance in the study of the Sun and stars and also led Bunsen almost immediately to his discovery of two alkali-group metals, cesium and rubidium.

Bunseniana

Adolf Meyer, 1904

https://www.semanticscholar.org/

Bunsen had a great reputation for warm heartedness, and enjoying jokes and fun. His students admired him greatly. He told a great many anecdotes, published after his death in a short book called Bunseniana.

Google Doodle 200th Birthday Robert Bunsen

https://www.google.com/doodles/

Google Doodle:

Today, March 31, Google celebrates the 200th birthday of one of the most important chemists, Robert Wilhelm E. Bunsen. He investigated emission spectra of heated elements and discovered cesium (1860) and rubidium (1861) with Gustav Kirchhoff. 

Bunsen burner

credits: Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/

Bunsen was a pioneer in photo chemistry. He developed the laboratory gas burner, now popular as the Bunsen burner and still in use in our days.

Once again, Google reminds us an important fact or person, on the occasion, an interactive chemical laboratory Doodle. Why? To celebrate the flaming Bunsen burner. 

Invite students to visit the Google Doodles page, if they don't live in Germany, Otherwise, Google browser presents the Doodle. On updated web browsers, students can move their mouse - now touching screen - anywhere on the screen to control the intensity of the flame and the level of the fluids in the beakers. 

"It was a pretty intense session getting all of the work done in time for the doodle to launch, but don't worry, we managed to avoid any (major) lab disasters and/or explosions in the process."

Mike Dutton & Jonathan Tang

Gustav Kirchhoff & Robert Bunsen

Inventors of a Spectroscope

https://www.sciencesource.com/archive/

Bunsen–Kirchhoff Award, named after Bunsen and his colleague Gustav Kirchhoff, is a prize awarded in recognition for "outstanding achievements" in analytical spectroscopy.

Bunsen using a spectroscope

credits: New York Public Library/Science Source

https://www.sciencesource.com/archive/

Some information:

After taking a Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of Göttingen in 1830, Bunsen taught at the Universities of Marburg and Breslau and elsewhere. As professor at Heidelberg (1852–99), he built up an excellent school of chemistry. 

Never married, he lived for his students, with whom he was very popular, and his laboratory. He chiefly concerned himself with experimental and analytical work.

In 1860 Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff discovered two alkali metals, cesium and rubidium, with the aid of the spectroscope they had invented the year before. 

Bunsen and Kirchhoff met and became friends in 1851, when Bunsen spent a year at the University of Breslau, where Kirchhoff was teaching. 

Robert Bunsen

credits: Gary Brown/ Science Photo Library

https://www.sciencephoto.com/

Bunsen burner

via Britannica

In 1855 Robert Bunsen had created the Bunsen burner for use in flame tests of various metals and salts: its non-luminous flame did not interfere with the colored flame given off by the test material. This line of work led to the spectroscope. 

It was Kirchhoff who suggested that similarly colored flames could possibly be differentiated by looking at their emission spectra through a prism. When he shone bright light through such flames, the dark lines in the absorption spectrum of the light corresponded in wavelengths, with the wavelengths of the bright, sharp lines characteristic of the emission spectra of the same test materials.

Robert Bunsen memorial 

Hauptstrasse, Heidelberg 

https://www.waymarking.com/

Education:

"In my day, we studied science and not, as now so often happens, only one of them."

Robert Bunsen

Bunsen was one of the most universally admired scientists of his generation. He was a master teacher, devoted to his students, and they were equally devoted to him. 

At a time of vigorous and often caustic scientific debates, Bunsen always conducted himself as a perfect gentleman, maintaining his distance from theoretical disputes. 

He much preferred to work quietly in his laboratory, regularly enriching his science with useful discoveries. 

On a point of principle, he never took out a patent, despite the fact that his new battery and new laboratory burner would surely have brought him great wealth.

in Wikipedia

In the International Year of Chemistry what a wonderful digital resource include into chemistry and physics school curriculum. Teachers and students are joining the celebrations of IYC.

International Year of Chemistry 2011

https://www.un.org/

The Chemistry 2011:

The IYC 2011 will be a year-long celebration in which anyone can participate. Teachers can coordinate an activity, engage students in a project, or simply share an idea. Join in now and become part of something special. 

Teachers can share, discuss and plan ideas about IYC 2011. 

Students can plan activities with their teachers in the classroom and then share with IYC 2011, by country.

And to add an event or events to the list, go to the Activities section and submit a description of the activity. 

Don't miss the video message by Irina Bokova, director general of UNESCO, for the Opening of the International Year of Chemistry (IYC) 2011.

Marie Curie

https://www.europeana.eu/

The year 2011 has coincided with the 100th anniversary of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry awarded to Marie Sklodowska-Curie (1867-1934), one of the most extraordinary persons in all of human history. It also marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the International Association of Chemical Societies.

"Marie Curie was honoured with a Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1911). Since then, only three women having been honoured on this way. It's important to encourage young women to contribute their talent to this exciting field."

Irina Bokova, former director -general UNESCO 

 

"Chemistry - our life, our future."

the official slogan of the IYC 2011

G-Souto

31.03.2011

update: 31.03.2021

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