I’m not defending Tucker here but no it was not Marie Curie.
Comment on Nuclear Demonology
Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Of course not. That would require him acknowledging women in science. That would be Marie Curie.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well you have the guy who found uranium, the guy who ran electrical checks through a vacuum, the guy who found pitchblende, and then Marie Curie who did the experiments with refined pitchblende to create X-ray machines.
If you want to talk specifically about nuclear energy and weapons then you’re probably looking for Rutherford. But he wouldn’t even be conducting those experiments without Curie, Röntgen, and Becquerel.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Either Rutherford or Fermi are who you’d probably credit for that given moment.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The thing is X-rays are absolutely nuclear science too.
kmaismith@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Maybe he is insinuating that women are demons
Atrichum@lemmy.world 2 months ago
He nay be insinuating that jews are demons. Many of the most famous early nuclear scientists were jewish.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That would be on point for him.