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May 15 marks the birthday of the French physicist Pierre Curie, born in 1859. Along with his wife Marie, Pierre Curie pioneered the early study of radioactivity. Pierre worked with Marie to isolate the elements radium and polonium and was one of the...
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May 15 marks the birthday of the French physicist Pierre Curie, born in 1859. Along with his wife Marie, Pierre Curie pioneered the early study of radioactivity. Pierre worked with Marie to isolate the elements radium and polonium and was one of the first to observe and measure radioactive emissions. Together with their accomplished children, the Curies accounted for an astounding five Nobel Prizes in Physics. Sadly, Pierre’s life was cut short in 1906 in a tragic street accident.
You can celebrate the achievements of the Curie family with the Isotopes Gizmo. In the Gizmo, students first learn the meaning of the term “isotope” by adding protons and neutrons to an atom. Changing the number of protons creates a different element while changing the number of neutrons creates a different isotope of the same element. Students will initially notice that stable isotopes have fairly even numbers of protons and neutrons, while those with excess protons or neutrons tend to be radioactive.
As students fill in more of the neutron vs. proton graph, they will see that the ratio of neutrons to protons in stable isotopes gets higher as the atomic mass increases. This occurs because the balance of the strong nuclear force and electromagnetic force changes as the nucleus grows in size.
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