She was awarded two Nobel Prizes â one in physics which she won jointly with her husband and Henri Becquerel, and another in chemistry â and was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes. She is still one of only four people (along with Linus Pauling, John Bardeen and Frederick Sanger) to accomplish that feat.
Welcome to the Description Key. Description is the key to opening a world of information for persons with a vision loss, literacy needs, or loss of cognitive abilities. The American Foundation for the Blind reports that 21.5 million adults have vision loss and 94,000 children with a vision loss are being helped by some kind of special education.
In the Mineral Descriptions there is always a part called, Compare To:, with the names of rocks that look a lot like the one you are reading about. The rock names are links. If you click on one, you jump to the description of that rock. In order to use The Rock Key there are a few things you need to know: Crystals: Crystals are what minerals form when they are free to grow in nature; like the quartz crystal in the first drawing. In rocks, crystals grow up against each other. They cannot grow as the quartz crystal did in open space. Crystals in rocks have straight edges and they very often show flat shiny faces that reflect light like tiny mirrors. They look more like the second drawing. Grains: Grains that are