spread all over america because of a scientist named to -- because of a polish scientist named marie curie, who discovered radium onto summer 21st, 1889, while working with radioactive elements in pursuit of a doctorate degree. both marie and her husband pierre experimented with radiological effects, they experimented to discover new uses for the element. from 1922 to 1923the united states is prominent in theworld radium market, producing 80% of the world's radium. radium companies began to spread all over america. the one i am going to talk about today is the rand corporation. after world war i, factories needed more workers due to all the men in war so they began to hire young women. this is where our story begins in the early 1920's with my fellow coworkers from the u.s. radium corporation. grace briar and catherine hsu. >> from the moment we worked at the u.s. radium corporation, we were asked to lick our paintbrushes to make the tips fit on the dials. radium was being used in warships, airplanes, compasses, and watches. soon, almost every american soldier had a radium dial watch. each

aser we made the discovery, marie curie said the scientific , history of radium is beautiful. >> [indiscernible] she decided to visit a dentist who began treating her. [indiscernible] >> we never questioned that it was not true just because it was written she had died from the disease. after molly's death, a second woman named irene rudolph died from the effects of the job. after that, we began to think it was more than extreme dental issues, so we decided to take our concerns to the vice president of u.s. radium corporation at the time, who agreed to bring in a doctor to examine the women and our work area. the doctor employed physician alice hamilton, who happened to be the president of the national consumer league, and they examine all the women who worked with radium. the doctor wanted to report about our unsafe work conditions. the conclusion to us seemed inevitable. radium paint is associated with dust and the dust must necessarily contain radium. >> we'll he saw the revised version of the report, so they continued our work painting dials until a journal was published about a term called

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how about a female scientist who isn‘t mary curie? how about a female scientist from asia?scientist from asia? my name isjuliana chang, i‘m the ceo of asia‘s latest science magazine. the reason why i left academia to focus on a new career as academia to focus on a new career as a science entrepreneur is because i really think that my calling in life is to help boost and support science coming out of asia. i think it is fairto coming out of asia. i think it is fair to say that we‘re living in an asian century. we are observing funding in the east eclipses out of the west. china publishes more patterns and patents does make my paintings every year than the us. so i‘m riding a wave of change. i guess the first sacrifice i had to make was to leave academia entirely. i put 0liver behind me. that was very difficult. i had to close my lab, reassign my students and it may stuff go. i‘m quite interested in trying to reduce the number of male panels that we see in asia, called manels. i saw a disastrous one where there were seven men on the panel. i thought couldn‘t they are just one

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explain the high number of left handed nobel prize winners including albert einstein and physicist marie curie to name just 2. left handed out to include stars such as charlie chaplin and angelina has only. been sport tennis player martina navratilova is one of a host of top athletes to wilt the left hands to their advantage. left handedness also runs in the british royal family with queen elizabeth a mother and son prince charles and grandson prince william all being left handed suggesting it could be genetic. of. it from science science desk 1st things 1st very important question are you left or right handed. right from the us i'm normal right hander and you say normal because i mean ultimately only around 10 percent of people are left handed why isn't it more evenly spread. yes that's a very good question but the answer isn't quite so easy it's clearly related to genetics probably about 25 percent of the. of c. decision whether someone is a left or right handed is genetic and the rest develops through epigenetics and hormones very early in life so that when we look at children who are young

. >> marie curie. >> hd wells. >> john f.merican rocket pioneer, inventor, dreamer. they called him the moon man and laughed. but on his own, he went ahead designing, inventing and testing. his first proving grounds were on his aunt effie's farm in massachusetts. the neighbors complained. ♪ >> with a grant from daniel g guggenheim he moved to new mexico withe esther who was als his camera woman. he accumulated 200 patents. ♪ ♪ >> by the year 1930, his rockets achieved a speed of 500 miles an hour and an altitude of 2,000 feet. this was the year in which the three apollo astronauts were born. goddard had a vision of the age of space, but the world was too slow to make it happen before his death. >> thank you, robert goddard for your inventiveness and pe perseveran perseverance. for most people, a trip to the planets was easy. all you needed was a 10 cent movie ticket and a nickel bag of popcorn. ♪ >> what was that? >> i don't know. >> two ships coming up fast behind us. >> uh-oh, here they come. you better put it in reverse. ♪

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apparently marie curie was the first woman to win the nobel prize.th milsom from the online store anything left handed. are you left—handed, keith? a lot of course i am. you say that, but one of the founders of the first left—handed business were not, where they? that's right, in soho, they we re they? that's right, in soho, they were right—handed, but he had a lot of left—handed family and friends who couldn't get hold of the basic everyday things they wanted to use in left—handed versions. everyday things they wanted to use in left-handed versions. how difficult is modern life, though, now we are much more aware of the needs of left—handed people? now we are much more aware of the needs of left—handed people ?|j now we are much more aware of the needs of left-handed people? i think there is a lot more awareness. certainly we don't make people change hands anymore like we used to, but there's still a lot of difficulty, with children in particular at school where parents and teachers just don't recognise the difference that them through being left—ha