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Jöns Jacob Berzelius Not everything is relevant to the article topic. There is a random side discussion about the theory of vitalism. Although Berzelius worked on vitalism, there is a almost a whole paragraph about other scientist's work within the theory of vitalism. The article is neutral in its current state, but there was discussion over bias in the talk page and the bias was dealt with. I think that there is a lack of viewpoints of how his work was received because most of the information about his reception comes from a perspective of his homeland of Sweden. The links work and the sources do support the claims in the article. There is a flag on the page that states some of the facts need to be verified. The information that is cited does come from reliable neutral sources. Most of the citations are from recent sources or are primary sources. There is a lot of name drops of discoveries Berzelius made and terms he coined, but there is a lack of information of experimental proceedings that led up to his discoveries. There is a lot of discussion of the pronunciation of Berzelius name and how to correctly spell his name. Other than that, there is old discussion of the citations being formatted wrong. The article is rated start-class. It is part of 4 wiki projects; Biography, History of Science, Chemistry, and Sweden. The importance of the article varies from mid-importance to high-importance depending on the project. We are not going to talk about Berzelius in class, but I think that his Wikipedia page name drops his discoveries more than we would in class.
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Article Additions Rough Drafts
Berzelius's atomic weight tables was first published in a German translation of his Textbook of Chemistry in 1826.

Berzelius discovered silicon by repeating an experiment performed by Gay-Lussac and Thénard. In the experiment, Berzelius reacted silicon tetrafluoride with potassium metal and then purified its product by washing it until it became a brown powder. Berzelius recognized this brown powder as a new element of silicon.

Article Choice: Henri Becquerel
We choose it because the page is very short and we think we could add a lot. There are a lot of things we can, there is a very little on his early life and the career section is comprised mostly of two long quotes. We want to add more about his early life, career, and post career life. Working with Josie; User:Jmk5mc/sandbox
 * Why did you choose it? What's missing? What do you want to add?
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 * https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henri-Becquerel
 * https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1903/becquerel-bio.html
 * https://www.famousscientists.org/henri-becquerel/
 * https://link-springer-com.libproxy.mst.edu/article/10.1007%2Fs12194-014-0292-z
 * http://web.b.ebscohost.com.libproxy.mst.edu/ehost/detail/detail?vid=3&sid=3e0c2cbb-7852-4e59-b747-fe0e06542401%40sessionmgr102&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=22315994&db=sch
 * https://link-springer-com.libproxy.mst.edu/article/10.1007%2Fs12350-017-0998-5
 * http://science-story-telling.eu/files/Biographies/Biography_Becquerel_ENG.pdf
 * https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.libproxy.mst.edu/lib/umr-ebooks/reader.action?docID=655797&query= pg.349--368

Notes on Henri Becquerel

 * His first position in academia was being an assistant teacher at École Polytechnique in 1876
 * He became chair of physics at École Polytechnique in 1895
 * became a member of Académie des Sciences in 1889
 * The intensive research of radioactivity led to Henri publishing 7 papers on the subject in 1896
 * he measured the deflection of Beta Particles and realized that they are high speed electrons leaving the nucleus
 * "He was a member also of the Accademia dei Lincei and of the Royal Academy of Berlin, amongst others. He was made an Officer of the Legion of Honour in 1900."
 * He was also selected as a member of the Académie des Sciences, published research articles on fluorescence and phosphorescence
 * His Grandfather, father, and son were all physicists
 * He attended Lycée Louis-le-Grand school, a prep school in Paris
 * "Becquerel's doctoral thesis from the École Polytechnique, which he completed in 1888, was concerned with crystals and their absorption of light."
 * "Becquerel made another fortuitous discovery in 1901, when he noticed that he had been burned by a piece of the radioactive element radium that was in his vest pocket. Becquerel surmised that this property of radioactive elements could be useful in medical treatments; radiotherapy, which is based on Becquerel's hypothesis, is now a common treatment for cancer patients."
 * "He also worked on the subject of terrestrial magnetism."
 * The uranium based mineral Becquerelite was named after Henri.

Early Life
Becquerel was born in Paris into a wealthy family which produced four generations of physicists: Becquerel's grandfather (Antoine César Becquerel), father (Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel), and son (Jean Becquerel). Henri started off his education by attending the Lycée Louis-le-Grand school, a prep school in Paris. He then went on to study engineering at the École Polytechnique and the École des Ponts et Chaussées. In 1874, Henri married Lucie Zoé Marie Jamin, who would die while giving birth to their son, Jean. In 1890 he married Louise Désirée Lorieux.

Later Career
Later in his life in 1900, Becquerel measured the properties of Beta Particles, and he realized that they had the same measurements as high speed electrons leaving the nucleus. In 1901 Becquerel made the discovery that radioactivity could be used for medicine. Henri made this discovery when he left a piece of radium in his vest pocket and noticed that he had be burnt by it. This discovery led to the development of radiotherapy which is now used to treat cancer. He died on August 25, 1908, at the age of 55, in Le Croisic, France.

Honors and Awards
In 1889, Becquerel became a member of the Académie des Sciences. In 1900, Becquerel won the Rumford Medal for his of the radioactivity of Uranium and he was made an Officer of the Legion of Honour. The Royal Academy of Sciences in Berlin awarded him the Helmholtz Medal in 1901. In 1903, Henri shared a Nobel Prize in Physics with Pierre Curie and Marie Curie for the discovery of spontaneous radioactivity. In 1905, he was awarded the Barnard Medal by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. In 1906, Henri was elected Vice Chairman of the academy, and in 1908, the year of his death, Becquerel was elected Chairman. During his lifetime, Becquerel was honored with membership into the Accademia dei Lincei and the Royal Academy of Berlin. Becquerel was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1908. Becquerel has been honored with being the namesake of many different scientific discoveries. The SI unit for radioactivity, the becquerel (Bq), is named after him. There is a crater called Becquerel on the Moon and also a crater called Becquerel on Mars. The mineral Becquerelite is a Uranium based mineral named after Becquerel.

Peer Review by Cdshel14 (talk) 19:41, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
You have a lot of information with a lot of sources, which is great. All the information is also presented as if I was reading it from an encyclopedia. I noticed in the Early Life section you included his death. I don't know if this is from the original article, but it was a little thing that I noticed. For the Honors and Awards section, I would suggest putting them in chronological order. It was weird jumping back and forth with all of his achievements. Again, it is nothing major, but I feel that reordering the information would help it flow better. Overall, both sections are full of information and I feel like a lot is being added to the article.Cdshel14 (talk) 19:41, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

Response to Peer Review
The fact about his death date being included in the early life section was a mistake by me because in the original article it was included in the Honors and Awards section and so I moved it from that section but just left it floating around in my draft which it ended up under the early life section as a stand alone paragraph. As for the honors and awards jumping around and not being chorological, I agree that this is a problem and I will work to change the section around to be chronological. Cole Phinney (talk) 15:20, 23 March 2018 (UTC)