Little Curie

“This is Marie Curie in one of her mobile X-ray machines ‘Little Curie’. She trained 150 women to operate it in the battlefields of World War I.”

English polymath William Whewell

“The term SCIENTIST was first coined in 1834 by the English polymath William Whewell. He often corresponded with scientists and helped them come up with new terms for their discoveries. He also suggested the terms electrode, ion, dielectric, anode, and cathode to Faraday”

Joyeux Noel a mes amis Alain Cote’ et Michel Bergeron (from Kerry Fraser)