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t'O-OlSCOVKHKK It A Dll M
1)1 KS IN FKANCK
(By Tile Associated Press)
SAIjL ANOUKS. France. July r-.
Mme. Marie Curie, aged sixty-six,
co-discoverer of radium died in a
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sanitarium here today. She had
been under treatment in tlie sani
tarium for several weeks for an
anemic condition. Following is a
sketch of her life, ftirnished the
Nugget by the Associated Press:
Mme. Marie Curie. Co-discovere*
with her husband of 'radium, pre
served thruout her life the best
traditions of science.
Fame came to her threshold,
but she shut the door of her work
shop in its face: wealth was hers
for the asking, but she turned all
money prizes back into her chem
istry or gave them to hospitals for
cancer research; luxury might
have been her lot without re
proach, but she spurned it and
lived frugally on her modest sal
ury as a teacher in the l*ni versify
>1 Paris.
She consented ,to take but a
mite of the huge debt owed by the
world for, the- Curie gift to man
kind in 189S of a substance which
enriched many persons and brot
relief or cure to countless thou
sands of cancer sufferers.
She never even owned a speck
of radium of her^own until 1921
when the women of America rais
ed *100,000, purchased a gram of
the precious salts and gave it to
her for experimental work. Even
this gift, however, was diverted for
she rented it out at *3,500 a year
in order to obtain funds for the
cancer hospital in Warsaw. Po
land, in which she had a deep in
terest.
So in 1929 her American friends
repeated the gift. They brpught
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the frail little old lady with the
white sparse hair to the United
States. She was lionized and feted
beyond her strength, the homage
culminating at the White House
when President Hoover handed
her a check for 150,000 from the
American Society for the Control
of Cancer.
She was requested to use this
for purchase of a second gram of
radium, shorts cuts found by*her
and her colleiguea having ■ halved
the price since 1921.
.Mine. Curie ‘returned tb France
exhausted by the effort and exalt
ation of her visit to America. But
the day after her home-coming
9be shut herself up In her Paris
labratory and resumed her unceas
ing work. ..
Twice she was a winner of the
Nobel prize for chemistry, the first
time in 1903 as a partner in the
reward with her husband; the sec
ond time in her widowhood in
1911. Moth awards went back into
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the research work.
T!ie medical world has e.sttniat
<1 that radium saved 50,090
wounded men from death—in—the
world war. its use in the treat
ment of cancer was suggested in
1910 and physicians have employed
it with increasing success, espec
ially on external growths that
have not developed to a critical
stage.
Mme. Curie spent more than
20 years of her life in the re
search that ended with discovery
and isolation of this substanee.
During much of that time she
worked over a pot of mineral re
fuse in a Paris wood shed and
rode a bicycle around the city
streets by way of recreation. Mod
est almost to a fault, she resisted
for nearly a year efforts to per
suade hgr to tell the story of her
life and finally consented to do so
only because so many erroneous
rumors had been circulated about
her.
She was born Marie Sklodowska
In Warsaw, Poland, November 7,
1867. Her father was professor rff
mathematics and physics In the
University of Warsaw and her
mother directed a school for girls.
Marie was the youngest of their
five children.
Growing up in this academic at
mosphere, she early determined to
qualify as a teacher, attending
private schools at first and later
going to government Institutions,
At 17 she took her first, position
ns governess and also began to
perfect herself in physics and
mathematics.
Then she went to Parts Seeking
a doctorate and for five years liv
ed in a little garret, preparing her
own meals and in winter carrying
coal up live flights of stairs. Study
occupied ail her other waking mo
ments. »
In 1S96 she married Pierre
Curie, a young French scientist,
but managed to '-Aef.p Tinnse. con
tinue her studies and teach a class
of young girls.
The cares of motherhood were
added to this program In 1897
when her first daughter was born.
Still she continued pursuit of her
doctorate and it was while work
ing on her thesis in the follow
ing year that investigation of
pitchblende revealed two new
substances* The first was Polan
lum. named in honor of Mme.
Curie's native country. The second
was radium, but It took four more
years of patient efTort to reduce
this latter to a pure chemical ele
ment. ■
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