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Science has long been aware of the little street once called the Rue des Postes. Its present name is the Rue Pierre-Curie. In a shabby wooden building at its end, 36 years ago, Mme Marie Sklodowska Curie and her husband Pierre discovered radium...
...that time their daughter Irene was in swaddling clothes. Eight years later bearded, brooding Pierre Curie was killed by a truck. Now Mme Curie, twice a Nobel Prizewinner, devotes her time to managing the Institut du Radium's Curie Laboratory, which she founded in 1912, and lecturing at the University of Paris. The old wooden building where she once worked is gone. But in one of the Institute's new buildings on the same street Irene, with her brilliant husband Jean Frédéric Joliot, continues to pry into matter's secrets in much...
...triton. After them, in Nature's system of elements, comes helium (atomic weight approximately 4). The helium atom's nucleus is the alpha particle which, in the full round of substances, again appears during the disintegration of the heaviest of the 92 elements-uranium, thorium, actinium, radium...
Died, Dr. Burton James Lee, 59, cancer specialist, clinical professor of surgery at Cornell Medical College, director of Manhattan's Memorial Hospital for Cancer, president of the American Radium Society; of coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan...
...breach of promise. Charge: that Mr. McCormick showed himself an "assiduous devotee," wrote over 50 love letters, made and later retracted a verbal promise of marriage. Died, Grace Fryer, 35, onetime painter of luminous watch dials in the Orange, N. J. plant (now closed) of U. S. Radium Corp. ; of radium sarcoma (cancer) ; in East Orange. Eighteenth employe of the plant to die of radium poisoning, she was one of five whose suits were settled out of court in 1928 for $10,000 each plus small annuities. Died, George Benjamin Luks, 66, painter, last of the famed Luks-Robert Henri...