What happens when the MTV Music Awards, the Oscars, and the Nobel Prizes collide in a 25 million dollar pile up? The 2017 Breakthrough Prizes, of course.
The 2017 Breakthrough Prizes
What happens when the MTV Music Awards, the Oscars, and the Nobel Prizes collide in a 25 million dollar pile up? The 2017 Breakthrough Prizes, of course.
Uranium minerals are often colourful, especially the secondary ones formed by alteration of primary deposits by water. This one forms when deposits also containing copper, and is found in the Katanga copper belt in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It is a hydrated copper uranium silicate and usually forms in sprays of small crystals. This mineral is highly radioactive, and special storage in a lead lined container is recommended, and limited handling advised (no licking the speciment). It should also be stored away from other minerals as its radiation may affect their colour. It was named after radiation researcher Marie Curie (still as far as I know the only winner of 2 Nobel prizes for different disciplines, in her case both physics and chemistry), whose Polish birth name was Sklodovska (with the l pronounced W). This example from the Musonoi mine measures 9x9cm.
Iceland has been on the bucket list for a while, so we set out to make that dream a reality. Partnered with several companies, we flew from Dallas to Reykjavik over the course of 17hours… Though we knew it would be beautiful, we never could have imagined how breathtaking Iceland would be during every second of everyday.
