In article <MPG.10766144cb795dfd9896e2 at nntp.mindspring.com>, qed at pobox.com
(Paul Hsieh) wrote:
>juola at mathcs.duq.edu says...
>> Peter da Silva <peter at baileynm.com> wrote:
>> >Where's Marie Curie? I mean, really...
>>>> Nowhere in the running. All she did was fill in a couple of
>> holes in the periodic table.
>>Excuse me?? She happened to have discovered radiation you know.
No, she did not discover radiation. Even if you don't count visible light.
She didn't even discover radioactivity.
>> [...] Give credit to the guy that
>> invented the periodic table and discovered the holes for her
>> to fill....
>>You want to give credit for someone discoverying a "classification
>system"? Sheesh ... !
His name was Mendelye'ev. And the period table is more than a
classification system: if is a reflection of atomic structure.
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