1900-1915.+shouldice

(1867-1934)
 * __ Marie Curie __

Marie Curie was born in Warsaw, Poland and she was the youngest of five children. Both her mother and he father were both teachers which would benefit her thoughout her childhood. At a young age Marie's mother passed away of a illness adn this really effected her. After her mother passed away her family did not have alot of money and she could not affored college. She ended up starting her studies at a Museum in Poland. Also with the lack of money in her family Curie had to move place to place just looking for a place of shelter. She did anything she could to stay off the streets, she had to fend for herself. Curie was the first female to successfully study in this field of chemistry and was also the first person to be awarded two Noble Peace Prizes. She recieved one in chemistry and one in physics. Building off of Becquerel's radioactivity studies she went on to discovery the theory of radioactive objects. She also discovered the element of polonium and radium. She used radioactive isotopes in most of her studies and this helped her succeed. Today there are two schools named after Marie Curie and is an model for women trying to do well in the field of chemistry.**

(1885- 1962)
 * __ Niels Bohr[[image:http://www.scientific-web.com/en/Physics/Biographies/images/NielsBohr1.jpg width="272" height="239" align="right"]] __

Niels Bohr was born in the year 1885 in Copenhagen, Denmark to a lutheran father and a very jewish mother. He father was a professor of physics at the University that Bohr attended. The Bohr family was very intelligent being his father was a teacher, his brother was extremely good at math and him being a legend in the physics and chemistry world. Bohr won the Noble Peace Prize in 1922 and then his son won the prize in 1975. Even though thi life was full of successful times he also had some hardship like when he lost his daughter in a accident while they were boating. Neils Bohr is said to have come up with the structure of the atom and this was in 1913 and he also liked the idea that the electrons orbit around the atom's nucleus. He travelled all over with this theory and then Bohr died of a heart attack and was buried in the town that he was born.**

​**__ Robert Millikan __ (1868-1953) Robert Millikan was born in Maquoketa, Iowa and he was the first person from the United to get any credit for his work with the atom and atomic theory. Robert went to Columbia Univeristy where he got his Ph. D. After he graduated he decided he wanted to become a teaccher and he went to go work at the University of Chicago and here was where most of his work was done. In 1909 he discovered the measurement of a single electron. Also while at the University of Chicago he work with the photoelectric effect. In 1923 he was award the Noble Peace Prize for his work. Millikan had three sons and got married in 1902.**


 * This is the model Millikan used to determine the charge of an electron it is also know as "oil drop model".**

__ Ernest Rutherford __ (1871-1937)

of the other scientist that have dealt with the atomic theory Rutherford did not have a science in his family. He father was a father and mother was not a huge part in his life. He just liked the subject and studied it, it was not pressured on him from his family. He did most of his studing at Canterbury College and the University of New Zealand. Rutherford conducted his own models and experiments and there are fairly popular today. The names of the two that are the most popular isthe Rutherford Model and the Gold Foil Model. Through these two models Ernest was able to discover that atoms have a positive charge nucleus adn he is also credited with the splitting of the first atom. Because of his work he was awarded a Noble Peace Prize in 1908 in the fild of chemistry. He died on the operatig table with a hernia and he was buried in the world famous Westminister Abbey.**
 * Ernest Rutherford was born in Nelson, New Zealand in the year of our lord 1871. Unlike most