Word: radiumator
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...tenderness, good judgment and good writing (excellently transmitted in Vincent Sheean's translation), this is an unforgettable first full-length biography of the delicate, blonde Polish girl who rose from a governess to the world's greatest woman scientist. Famed for her hard-won discovery of radium, Madame Curie here emerges as most deserving of fame for her incorruptible stand against cashing in on it. Known for an emotional self-discipline as strict asher public reserve, her response to the accidental death of her husband-collaborator is told in one of the most affecting and dramatic scenes...
...primitive Physarum has extraordinary qualities of high resistance to X-ray bombardments and emanations from radium, it resembles the cells of stubborn cancers called fibrosarcomas...
Nothing Sacred (David O. Selznick) is a spirited little comedy about a girl who is slowly dying of radium poisoning. It is a comedy because Hazel Flagg (Carole Lombard) and Dr. Downer (Charles Winninger), her Warsaw, Vt. physician, know that she isn't really dying at all. But by the time Downer finds he has made a mistake in his diagnosis, the story about Hazel has appeared in the New York Morning Star. Reporter Wally Cook (Fredric March) takes her away from Warsaw. He is in trouble with his managing editor (Walter Connolly) and Hazel is his peace offering...
...Berkeley researchers have also created a small trace of Radium E-not a temporarily radioactive substance but actual radium. The Lawrence cyclotron technique has in the past five years come to be recognized as the most efficient atom-smashing device in the world. Eleven cyclotrons are either in operation or being built in the U. S., one in Canada, eleven in Europe and the Orient. And many of these projects are directed or staffed by men who learned their cyclotron technique as research fellows under Ernest Lawrence at Berkeley...
...RADIUM - Rudolf Brunngraber - Random House ($2.50). Stiltedly-written story of the discovery and world-exploitation of radium...