PACHSmörgåsbord: Radium

Sunday, August 01, 2010

History of Science in Philadelphia—Curie’s Early Piezo-Electric Apparatus

One of Marie and Pierre Curie’s earliest piezo-electric apparatus sits quietly in the lobby at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia. It was used in their early research on the radioactivity of Radium.

Posted by Darin Hayton on 08/01 at 10:00 PM

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