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Suddenly the woman turned off the gas lights. The darkness was complete except for the faint luminescence of something in a tube which she held in her hand. Few days later Marie Sklodowska Curie and her husband Pierre announced they had discovered a radioactive element which they called radium...
...crystallizations with apparatus at which a modern physicist would sneer. Much of the time Mme Curie spent stirring a cauldron with an iron rod as thick as one of her thin arms. At last they had a thimbleful of a white salt. In it they found first polonium, finally radium...
Possibly Mme Curie thought of the years of her work alone, of how she established the atomic nature of radioactivity, of how she isolated pure radium from the chloride, of her work on cancer therapy, of her Wartime labors in military hospitals. Possibly she thought of her last years, passed mainly in managing the Institut du Radium's Curie Laboratory which she founded in 1912. lecturing at the Sorbonne, writing treatises and books. Then there were the honors which had been showered on her as on no other woman of her time-the Nobel Prize awarded...
Died. Marie Sklodowska Curie. 66, co-discoverer of radium; of a lung ailment and pernicious anemia; near Sallanches, France...
...elements Professor Fermi played with last spring was uranium. Uranium, discovered in 1789, is the mother stuff of radium, and the heaviest element on earth (twice as heavy as tin). Astronomers believe that elements heavier than uranium must exist in the interior of the sun. Geologists admit that perhaps near the core of the earth may be something heavier than uranium. But there certainly has been none anywhere near the earth's surface where man can lay his hands on it-until possibly last week...