Physical Science

Chapter 18: Radioactivity and Nuclear Reactions

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Topic: Marie Curie

Visit these sites to learn more about the life of Marie Curie. Use the information to complete the activity in your book.



Radioactivity - Historical Figures

( http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEC/CC/historical_background.html )
Marie Curie and the Science of Radioactivity

( http://www.aip.org/history/curie/ )
History of Marie and Pierre Curie

( http://nobelprize.org/physics/articles/curie/#2 )
Madame Curie

( http://www.hypatiamaze.org/curiforkids/curie_kids.html )

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Topic: Fusion Reactors

Visit these sites to learn more about the use of nuclear fusion as a future energy source. Use the information to complete the activity in your book.



Office of Fusion Energy Sciences

( http://www.ofes.fusion.doe.gov/ )
Fusion - Physics of a Fundamental Energy Source

( http://fusedweb.pppl.gov/CPEP/chart.html )
About Fusion

( http://ippex.pppl.gov/fusion/ )

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Visit these sites to learn more about Rutherford and Fermi.



Earnest Rutherford - Biography

( http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Rutherford.html )
Enrico Fermi

( http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/95sep/fermi.html )
Enrico Fermi - Biography

( http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1938/fermi-bio.html )
Lise Meitner - A Battle for the Ultimate Truth

( http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/meitner.html )
Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner, and Fritz Strassmann

( http://www.chemheritage.org/EducationalServices/chemach/ans/hms.html )
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