Summary:
Marie Curie is one of the first people that Keane mentions to start off the chapter. Marie grew up with a natural knack at science. When Marie grew up, she moved to Paris and married a man named Pierre. Together they worked and were able to attain a Nobel Prize in physics. Later on in life both Marie and Pierre died. Marie from radioactivity exposure and her husband was run over by a carriage. Their daughter, Irene Joliot-Curie did work with her husband and found a way to tame radioactive elements. She later died of leukemia.
Keane continues on to talk about Hevesy, a Jewish chemist that had a peculiar way of running his experiments. Otto Hahn won a Nobel prize while Lise had the honor of an element being named after her. Keane believe there was injustice by not giving Lise the recognition she deserved for putting all the work in helping Ottoman discover element 91. Since she was a woman and it was the time of World War II they did not find it important enough to recognize her as a scientist.
Reflection:
This chapter really frustrated me when I learned that Lise was not given the recognition that she deserved. Though having an element named after is pretty nice, it's extremely upsetting to hear about a WOMAN who put that time and effort into something and did not get the award she deserved along with Ottoman.
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