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Article Evaluation: Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau

 * Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
 * The article is relevant to what occurred in her life, career, etc. Nothing is standing out that is over distracting, there is just little detail in each section.
 * Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?
 * All the information seems to be valid in terms realistic dates. There could be more added to here childhood and youth going into her career. Also to go more into detail of of her work into the first penicillin production plant. As well as her advancements in distillation columns.
 * What else could be improved?
 * More specific on the dates of her career and how it majorly effected the time period she was in. Again just further expanding on her career.
 * Is the article neutral? Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
 * The article is briefs in sentences and doesn't see to have bias anywhere. Therefore the article is neutral.
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
 * All the viewpoints seem to be underrepresented because their seems to be little detail in her works which should deserve more attention.
 * Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article?
 * The links all work and all have similar information in each.
 * Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?
 * Each sources seems reliable and doesn't seem to have bias in the sources.
 * Now take a look at how others are talking about this article on the talk page.
 * What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?
 * It talks about the birth and death dates as well as your father. The person asked for verification of these changes but no one responded. It does seem that the information is correct from the sources.
 * How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects?
 * The article is rated start-class with mid-importance. It's art of Biography/Science and Academia, Women's History, History of Science, United States, Women Scientists.
 * How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class?
 * Women are under the radar for their works as we've talked about many of them in class. Margaret is the same, she has done some notable work but yet I haven't heard of her.
 * Women are under the radar for their works as we've talked about many of them in class. Margaret is the same, she has done some notable work but yet I haven't heard of her.

Rm738 (talk) 16:55, 22 February 2019 (UTC

Article Evaluation: Irene Joliot Curie
Why did you choose? What's missing? What do you want to add?


 * She was chosen because she did notable works in radioactivity and she is not as knowable as her mother but should be. Also she is rated a C-class with high importance. Many citations are missing within the article. Also during her life the years bounce around without going into detail during the years. Basically just go into detail in each article to fill in the gaps of years that aren't there from the many sources within the MST Library Database.
 * Sources
 * Irene Joliot Curie / Jennifer Hicks. MS&T Library Database
 * Marie Curie and her daughters / Shelley Emling. MST Library Database
 * Scientific Pioneers: Women succeeding in science / Joyce Tang. MST Library Database
 * -Rm738 (talk) 16:51, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

Research


As she neared the end of her doctorate in 1924, Irène Curie was asked to teach the precise laboratory techniques required for radiochemical research to the young chemical engineer Frédéric Joliot, whom she would later wed. From 1928 Joliot-Curie and her husband Frédéric combined their research efforts on the study of atomic nuclei. Though their experiments identified both the positron and the neutron, they failed to interpret the significance of the results and the discoveries were later claimed by Carl David Anderson and James Chadwick respectively. These discoveries would have secured greatness indeed, as together with J. J. Thomson's discovery of the electron in 1897, they finally replaced John Dalton's model of atoms as solid spherical particles.

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In 1932, Joliot-Curie and her husband Frédéric had full access to Marie's polonium. Experiments were done with the use of gamma rays to identify the positron.

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However in 1933, Joliot-Curie and her husband were first to discover the accurate weight measurement of the neutron. The Joliot-Curie's continuing trying to get their name in the nuclear science community, had developed a new theory. During one of their experiments of using alpha rays against aluminum, they discovered only protons were detected. Based off the undetectable electron and positron pair they proposed the protons changed into neutrons and positrons. This new theory was taken to the Seventh Solvay Conference in 1933. The Solvay Conference consisted of highly intelligent scientists in the physics and chemistry community. Irene and her husband presented their theory and results to the fellow scientists. However they received criticism from their finding from most of the 46 scientist. However they were able to prove their theory later on. -Rm738 (talk) 21:37, 16 March 2019 (UTC)

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This is formally known as the first discover of positron emission or beta decay. Where a proton in the radioactive nucleus changes to a neutron and releases positrons and electron neutrino. -Rm738 (talk) 21:37, 16 March 2019 (UTC)

NOTE:Your citation is a link to an article on EBSCOHOST and I can't even get to it with my own login info. You need to pull up this source again, if possible. You need to cite it as a print source--is it a book? An article? A chapter? Use that information and the cite gadget. Do not use the URL. K8shep (talk) 18:06, 9 March 2019 (UTC) Irène's group pioneered research into radium nuclei that led a separate group of German physicists, led by Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner, and Fritz Strassman, to discover nuclear fission: the splitting of the nucleus itself, emitting vast amounts of energy. Lise Meitner's now-famous calculations actually disproved Irène's results to show that nuclear fission was possible.

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In 1948, using the works of nuclear fission, Irène worked with her husband along with other scientist to create the first French nuclear reactor. Irène's husband, Frédéric was the director of the Atomic Energy Commission, Commissariat à l'énergie atomique (CEA) which was the organization in charge of the project. The reactor, Zoé (French for "heavy water") used nuclear fusion to generate five kilowatts of energy .-Rm738 (talk) 21:57, 15 March 2019 (UTC) Research

As she neared the end of her doctorate in 1924, Irène Curie was asked to teach the precise laboratory techniques required for radiochemical research to the young chemical engineer Frédéric Joliot, whom she would later wed. From 1928 Joliot-Curie and her husband Frédéric combined their research efforts on the study of atomic nuclei. In 1932, Joliot-Curie and her husband Frédéric had full access to Marie's polonium. Experiments were done with the use of gamma rays to identify the positron. Though their experiments identified both the positron and the neutron, they failed to interpret the significance of the results and the discoveries were later claimed by Carl David Anderson and James Chadwick respectively. These discoveries would have secured greatness indeed, as together with J. J. Thomson's discovery of the electron in 1897, they finally replaced John Dalton's model of atoms as solid spherical particles.

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In 1932, Joliot-Curie and her husband Frédéric had full access to Marie's polonium. Experiments were done with the use of gamma rays to identify the positron. -Rm738 (talk) 15:49, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

However in 1933, Joliot-Curie and her husband were first to discover the accurate weight measurement of the neutron. The Joliot-Curie's continuing trying to get their name in the nuclear science community, had developed a new theory. During one of their experiments of using alpha rays against aluminum, they discovered only protons were detected. Based off the undetectable electron and positron pair they proposed the protons changed into neutrons and positrons. This new theory was taken to the Seventh Solvay Conference in 1933. The Solvay Conference consisted of highly intelligent scientists in the physics and chemistry community. Irene and her husband presented their theory and results to the fellow scientists. However they received criticism from their finding from most of the 46 scientist. However they were able to prove their theory later on. -Rm738 (talk) 21:43, 16 March 2019 (UTC)

In 1934, the Joliot-Curies finally made the discovery that sealed their place in scientific history. Building on the work of Marie and Pierre Curie, who had isolated naturally occurring radioactive elements, the Joliot-Curies realised the alchemist's dream of turning one element into another: creating radioactive nitrogen from boron, radioactive isotopes of phosphorus from aluminium, and silicon from magnesium. Irradiating the natural stable isotope of aluminium with alpha particles (i.e. helium nuclei) results in an unstable isotope of phosphorus: 27Al + 4He → 30P + 1n. This is formally known as the first discover of positron emission or beta decay. Where a proton in the radioactive nucleus changes to a neutron and releases positrons and electron neutrino. By then, the application of radioactive materials for use in medicine was growing and this discovery allowed radioactive materials to be created quickly, cheaply, and plentifully. The Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1935 brought with it fame and recognition from the scientific community and Joliot-Curie was awarded a professorship at the Faculty of Science.

Added portion: This is formally known as the first discover of positron emission or beta decay. Where a proton in the radioactive nucleus changes to a neutron and releases positrons and electron neutrino. -Rm738 (talk) 15:49, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

In 1948, using the works of nuclear fission, Irène worked with her husband along with other scientist to create the first French nuclear reactor. Irène's husband, Frédéric was the director of the Atomic Energy Commission, Commissariat à l'énergie atomique (CEA) which was the organization in charge of the project. The reactor, Zoé (French for "heavy water") used nuclear fusion to generate five kilowatts of energy. This was just the beginning of nuclear energy as a power source for France. Because of the work of the Joliot-Curie's, France in now run on approximately 80% of nuclear energy to present day. Also France exports additional energy to other European countries.

-Rm738 (talk) 04:36, 5 May 2019 (UTC)

Political Views

- We have sources currently to add to this section but will add later. Ch 6 Irene Curie - Page 137

Personal Life of Irene Curie article
Irène and Frédéric hyphenated their surnames to Joliot-Curie after they married in 1926. Eleven months later, their daughter Hélène was born; she would also become a noted physicist. Their son, Pierre, a biologist, was born in 1932.

During World War II, Joliot-Curie contracted tuberculosis and was forced to spend several years convalescing in Switzerland. Concern for her own health together with the anguish of leaving her husband and children in occupied France was hard to bear and she did make several dangerous visits back to France, enduring detention by German troops at the Swiss border on more than one occasion. Finally, in 1944, Joliot-Curie judged it too dangerous for her family to remain in France and she took her children back to Switzerland.

In 1956, after a final convalescent period in the French Alps, Joliot-Curie was admitted to the Curie hospital in Paris, where she died on 17 March at the age of 58 from leukemia, possibly due to radiation from polonium-210.

Frédéric's health was also declining and died in 1958 from liver disease. It was said to be from overexposure to radiation.

Joliot-Curie was an atheist.

Joliot-Curie's daughter, Hélène Langevin-Joliot, is a nuclear physicist and professor at the University of Paris; her son, Pierre Joliot, is a biochemist at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Edited Portion:

Irène and Frédéric hyphenated their surnames to Joliot-Curie after they married in 1926. The Joliot-Curie's had two children, Hélène born eleven months after they were married and Pierre, born in 1932.

During 1941 through 1943 of World War II, Joliot-Curie contracted tuberculosis and was forced to spend convalescing in Switzerland. Concern for her own health together with the anguish of her husband being in the resistance against the Nazi party and children in occupied France was hard to bear. She did make several dangerous visits back to France, enduring detention by German troops at the Swiss border on more than one occasion. Finally, in 1944, Joliot-Curie judged it too dangerous for her family to remain in France and she took her children back to Switzerland. Later in September of 1944, after not hearing from Frédéric for months, Irene and children were able to rejoin with Frédéric.

In 1956, after a final convalescent period in the French Alps, Joliot-Curie was admitted to the Curie hospital in Paris, where she died on 17 March at the age of 58 from leukemia, possibly due to radiation from polonium-210. Frédéric's health was also declining and died in 1958 from liver disease. It was said to be from overexposure to radiation.

Joliot-Curie was an atheist. Also she was anti-war. The French government held a national funeral in her honor, however Irène's family asked to have the religious and military portions of the funeral omitted. Frédéric also had a national funeral held by the French government.

Joliot-Curie's daughter, Hélène Langevin-Joliot, is a nuclear physicist and professor at the University of Paris; her son, Pierre Joliot, is a biochemist at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

-Rm738 (talk) 04:36, 5 May 2019 (UTC)