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...Joliot's Curie Laboratory has the one gram of radium purchased for Madame Curie with the $100,000 subscribed by U.S. women on her visit...
...rank scientists charged that the foundation had a distinctly pro-Nazi tinge, that its subsidized sociological studies had served as a front for researches in "racism." After Paris' liberation, Carrel was suspended as director of the foundation. Last week famed Chemist Fédéric Joliot, now top man in French science, was reported preparing to place the foundation under new management...
...Joliot, who in 1935 shared a Nobel Prize in chemistry with his wife, Irene Curie, had his Nazi troubles. His laboratories at Paris and Ivry were seized and in June, 1941 he had a twelve-hour ordeal with the Gestapo. He came through well enough to get back not only his laboratories but also the only French-owned cyclotron and a precious stock of radium.* Says he: "It wasn't funny. But after I had convinced them that I was all right, I was able to get back to work seriously...
...incendiary bottles for resistance units. At least twelve Nazi tanks were destroyed by the bottles. Huge quantities of guncotton were made from cotton received a bale at a time. Radio transmitters and receivers were assembled for the underground despite, in some cases, Nazi occupancy of the same buildings. Joliot continued the publication of L'Université Libre, which reached a fortnightly circulation of a thousand...
With the liberation Joliot assumed charge of the reorganization of French scientific research. His scientist wife, daughter of Madame Curie, shrugs off the dangerous years. Says she: "They [the Nazis] didn't worry me much. They seemed to mix me up with my sister [famed French WAC officer, Eve Curie] and looked somewhat puzzled when they met me, but I never helped them to work out the family relationship...