Curie worked extensively with radium, which decays into radon, along with other radioactive materials that emit beta and gamma rays.

Born in 1855, Dr Leonard Cockayne ( generally recognised as the greatest botanist who has lived, worked, and died in New Zealand ) worked extensively on native plants throughout New Zealand and wrote many notable botanical texts.

* Helen B. Taussig ( 1898 – 1986 ), founder of pediatric cardiology and extensively worked on blue baby syndrome

In the English-speaking world it was Sir Albert Howard who worked extensively in India on sustainable practices and Lady Eve Balfour who was a huge proponent of composting.

He obtained a bachelor of medicine in 1674, having studied medicine extensively during his time at Oxford and worked with such noted scientists and thinkers as Robert Boyle, Thomas Willis, Robert Hooke and Richard Lower.

Otomo has recently worked extensively with noted studio Sunrise.

She also worked extensively in live musical theatre as a band member and accompanist.

File: Archimedes naples statue. jpg | Archimedes ( c. 287 BC – c. 212 BC ): described buoyancy, developed formulae for the areas and volumes of spheres, cylinders, parabolas, worked extensively with levers, invented the Archimedes ' screw, developed siege engines for warfare to impede the Roman invasion of Syracuse.

Modern notable artists who have worked extensively in pastels include Fernando Botero, Francesco Clemente, Daniel Greene, Wolf Kahn, and R. B. Kitaj.

He worked extensively in experimental jazz and dabbled in free improvisation, but Lacy's music was typically melodic and tightly-structured.

During the late 1840s, when he was out of office, he worked extensively to turn Hawarden into a viable business.

Meantime, Bhutto extensively worked to gather and unite the leftists organizations, and the leftists under Bhutto's leadership, participated with full force, becoming the vital players in country's politics.

She also worked extensively on the population genetics of disorders with ethnic distribution.

The album ( released on Gigitone Records ) was produced by Jeffrey Foskett, who has worked extensively with Brian Wilson and played on Wilson ’ s 2004 Grammy-winning version of SMiLE.

In the Eifel region of Germany a trachytic, pumiceous tuff called trass has been extensively worked as a hydraulic mortar.

She is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and has worked extensively on conservation and animal welfare issues.

These include Alonzo King and his company, Alonzo King's Lines Ballet ; Complexions Contemporary Ballet, under the direction of Dwight Rhoden ; Nacho Duato's Compañia Nacional de Danza ; William Forsythe, who has worked extensively with the Frankfurt Ballet and today runs The Forsythe Company ; and Jiří Kylián, currently the artistic director of the Nederlands Dans Theater.

Scholars and practitioners such as John Steinbruner, Jonathan Dean or Stuart Croft worked extensively on the theoretical backing of arms control.

( see also Slavery in the Spanish New World colonies ) Although Spain claimed the entire Caribbean, they settled only the larger islands of Hispaniola ( 1493 ), Puerto Rico ( 1508 ), Jamaica ( 1509 ), Cuba ( 1511 ), and Trinidad ( 1530 ), although the Spanish made an exception in the case of the small ' pearl islands ' of Cubagua and Margarita off the Venezuelan coast because of their valuable pearl beds which were worked extensively between 1508 and1530.

He worked extensively in the following years in Gujarat against alcoholism, untouchability and caste discrimination, as well as for the empowerment of women.

As general, he was responsible for recalling the controversial nobleman Alcibiades from exile, and the two worked together extensively over the next several years.

He worked extensively in television from the mid 1950s on.

Since his inauguration in 1999, President Bouteflika has worked to extend Algeria's international influence, traveling extensively throughout the world.

He has worked extensively with Washington D. C .- based duo Deep Dish, co-writing, co-producing, performing and singing on many of their tracks, most notably on their albums Junk Science and George Is On.

There were times that he worked with both lyricists simultaneously.

While Arlen and Mercer collaborated on Hot Nocturne, Mercer worked also with Arthur Schwartz on another film, Navy Blues.

Arlen, too, worked on other projects at the same time with old friend Ted Koehler.

He worked as a `` clothier '' in London, but was greatly concerned with religion.

But things were worked out in the family and late in August he wrote Miss McCrady an explanatory letter in which he told her that matters at home had been in an unsettled condition after Papa's death and he had not known whether he would stay at home with Mama, accept the Northwestern job, or return to Harvard.

The defeat and death of Adolf of Nassau at the hands of Albert of Habsburg also worked to the disadvantage of the English, for all the efforts to revive the anti-French coalition came to nothing when Philip made an alliance with the new king of the Romans.

In San Francisco he has worked with Brew Moore, Charlie Mingus, and other `` swinging '' musicians of secure reputation, thus placing himself within established jazz traditions, in addition to being a part of the San Francisco `` School ''.

Among some recent imports were seat covers for one series of dining room chairs on which were depicted salad plates overflowing with tomatoes and greens and another set on which a pineapple was worked in naturalistic color.

He worked for two hours a day with each model sent by the rabbi.

He worked standing, with his left hand in his pocket as though he were merely stopping for a moment, sketching with the surprised stare of one who was watching another person's hand.

Once more and roared off into the fog, his foot evidently surprising him with the suddenness with which it pressed the accelerator, just as his hand did when he worked.

Industrial Division personnel worked with 54 out-of-state and 97 Rhode Island concerns during 1960, many of whom are still interested in a Rhode Island location.

Traveling through the South -- over 16,000 miles -- with two Great Danes, an Afghan, and a Persian kitten, we've worked up a regular routine for acceptance at motels.

However, we started with the first row of bars and worked our way back.

Fury and Caper worked in 2:35 and did it with ease.

Flick Nipe's and Neil Engle's Miss Phone ( Galophone-Prissy Miss ) is a fine-looking filly with good disposition and good gait, and she has worked up to date in 2:46.

We also worked out logistics for Sunday afternoon swimmers who arrive two hours early with their weekend guests while we are still enjoying an alfresco lunch en famille.

While the phonemes can be very easily stated, no one is likely to be satisfied with the statement until phonemic occurrences can be related in some way to morphemic units, i.e. until the morphophonemics is worked out, or at least far enough that it seems reasonable to expect success.

Additional courses can readily be added and special cooperative programs worked out with any new industry if the basic facilities, staff and program are in being.

) But the inner, formal logic of Cubism, as it worked itself out through the collage, had just as much to do with shaping their decision.

It was his brag that he could beat everybody at anything, but especially at fighting, and he once took on the manager of his club and worked him over thoroughly with his fists.

-- Held out of Texas Tech's sweat-suits drill Monday at Lubbock was tackle Richard Stafford, who is undergoing treatment for a leg injury suffered in the Raiders' 38-7 loss to Texas A & M Because of its important game with Arkansas coming up Saturday, Baylor worked out in the rain Monday -- mud or no mud.

Kowalski, a roofer who seldom worked last winter, already was in arrears on their recently purchased split-level home when the tragedy staggered him with medical and funeral bills.