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BY DAVE AMBER
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In the East Room of the White House
afternoon in late May 1921, Presi-
it Warren Harding unlocked a doll-
use-sized cabinet draped with ribbons
dpulled out a small glass tube.
With much pomp, he handed it to Pol-
physicist Marie Curie. The small
iss vial weighed only about a gram, but
irie travelled by ship from France to
llect it,
And it contained a fortune.
On her first visit to the United States,
e only woman awarded two Nobel
izes—in 1903 for physics and in 1911
r chemistry — received $100,000
AP) — An Indian p orth of radium, the rare radioactive el-
fashion des;i lent she had discovered and named
ore than 20 years before.
Curie's supply of radium had been ex-
iusted. She and her daughters \\ ere the
lestsof the Marie Curie Radium Fund,
group of American w omen w ho col
led the S100.000 so that Curie might
ntinue her research into the medically-
ignificant aspects of radioactivity.
Eight decades later, Texas A&M w ill
st another Curie visit next month,
hen the J. Wayne Stark Galleries ex-
the original laboratory equipment
sed by Marie and her husband Pierre
urie in their radioactivity experiments.
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It will be the second time that the in-
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nent Wednesday,
struments, considered a French national
treasure, have traveled outside of their
home country.
“Marie Curie built all of her instru
mentation. It was primitive hut still had
to measure minute electrical charges,”
said Alan Waltar, professor and depart
ment head of nuclear engineering. “The
fact that these instruments worked is
amazing.”
The exhibit will also explore the con
tributions of female scientists over the
last 100 years since Curie’s original work
with radioactivity.
It is part of a month-long “Women
in Discovery Program,” sponsored by
the several offices, including the
Provost Office and the Office of Re
search and Graduate Studies, to focus
on attracting women into science and
engineering careers.
Besides the exhibit, a symposium
March 22-23 will bring women science
and engineering pioneers to campus.
They will include Dr. Mae Jemison,
the first African-American woman in
space, and Dr. Nancy Dickey, the first
woman president of the American Med
ical Association.
Marie Curie is a role model for
women scientists around the world, Wal
tar said. “She is a real hero. Her original
discoveries transformed science in the
20th century.”
He said celebrating Curie’s life is a
way to stimulate young women’s interest
in science.
Spanning generations
Female scientists look to pioneering leaders
the Mi! M
Physics: Pierre and Marie Curie,
for their work on radioactivity
Chemistry: Marie Curie, for her
discovery of the radioactive
elements Polonium and Radium
Chemsitry: Irene and Frederic
Joliot-Curie, for the discovery
of artificial radioactivity
Cyclotron Institute’s Dr. Sherry Yennello won
CURIE PHOTOS COURTESY AP ARCHIVES, YENNELLO PHOTO BY CODY WAGES, GRAPHIC BY ROBERT HYNECEK/TheBattalion Sigma Xi S 2000 Young Investigator award
Cyclotron researcher wins 2000 Young Investigator Award
BY SCOTT JENKINS
The Battalion
As a female scientist who had supportive mentors
throughout her career. Dr. Sherry Yennello has seen
the difference positive role models can make for
women at every step in their education.
“I had people who told me, "Yeah, you can do
this,”’ said Yennello, a researcher at Texas A&M’s
Cyclotron Institute.
She said they were the ones who helped her see
science as enjoyable, and “an acceptable thing for
women to do.”
Yennello, a member of the Department of Chem
istry', has been awarded the 2000 Young Investigator
Award by the scientific research society Sigma Xi for
her work on the chemistry and physics of atomic nuclei.
Yennel lo has always wanted to know how tilings work,
and said her curiosity helped her succeed in science.
Much of her research at the Cyclotron involves ac
celerating beams of different kinds of charged atoms,
called ions, to high energies and studying the colli
sions of the ions with each other or different targets.
Yennello and the other Cyclotron scientists want
to leam more about fundamental aspects of the nu
cleus, like the forces holding nuclei together and the
mechanisms of nuclear reactions.
In its normal state, called the energy ground state,
a nucleus can be thought of as a “liquid” consisting of
protons and neutrons. “In certain ways, you can make
the analogy between a nucleus and a drop of water,”
Yennello said.
If involved in a high-energy collision, nuclei can
form a kind of “vapor” of protons and neutrons in the
same way that water can undergo the transition from
liquid to gas with energy input.
Yennello and her research group are investigat
ing how this fieeting “vapor” of protons and neu
trons is generated with collisions, and then how it
behaves after the collisions as energy dissipates.
They are working on a complete understanding of
the dynamics of the collisions and the thermodynam
ics of the resulting “hot” nuclear system.
Yennello said she thinks understanding funda
mental science is essential for applications and “spin
offs” that are based on that understanding.
But Yennello thrives on more than research.
She is active in campus committees, such as the
Science and Technology Policy Program and Women
in Science and Engineering.
She is also serving as chair of the TAMU Women’s
Week 2000 committee.
Dr. Robert A. Kennedy, vice president of research
and A&M associate provost for graduate studies
called Yennello “an outstanding scientist who sees the
importance of playing a leading role in the formula
tion of science policy.”
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