The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-04-20
PROF. N. CURlE
KILLED by WAGON
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which he met hcrtwho was to be to him
not only II companion, bus a valuable
tcoadjutor, and whose personal work was
even to lead NJ. Curic to partially hlnn-
don Ills researches and enter upon new
path.
Nine. Curie Is a pole. Marie sklodow.
1865, nnd Is therefore q very voting Wo-
man. She has u sweet and Intelligent
face, which has not become forbld1lng
through the dryt1ess Of scientific things.
She Is not only OF Il race, but of a family
In witch science. and learning prova for
bidding to none Her father Ladlslhs
Sklodowska,. was a professor and at the
Same time an excellent naturalist, while
her mother, BronistnWn Boguska WIS
principal OF boarding school. Nine.
Curie, moreover, has n sister who mar
rIed Doctor OF Medicine Dlurski and who
Is herself physician Marie sklodowska
completed her ordinary studies ut six
teen, and in 1901 she went 10 Paris, where
sho took but two years to obtain y first
llcenttate's degree In the mathematical
sciences. ~.
SHE did not yet feel satisfied, however,
and two years later on, took degree II,
the physical and chemical sciences. NJ.
Pierre Curic, finding himself In tho pres
cncc Of a charming young girl In whom
he met with the saline love for science.
and the same inclination for study that
he himself possessed. soon became smttten
with her and finally Unmarried her.
It will be seen that two workers OF this
kind were made for a thorough under
standing Of each other and for an inti-
mate collaboration. Nine Curle had be-
come professor OF physics at the lligh
School of Sevres, where her researches
upon radlum were the subject OF n thesis
that obtained for her the It'll. OF Doctor
Of Sciences. Very naturally. the pre-
sentatioh Of memoirs to the Academy
Of Sciences and the publca ton nf papers
In scientific Journals became more nn1
more frequent Under the name OF Curic,
although In most cases the name included
that Of Nine. Curle. ss
In the School OF Physics and Chemistry.
In the first place, Nine. Curie entered
the path ma rked out by her husband, but
owing to a study upon the conductivty
Of air under the influence Of the rays
OF uranium and tllorium, she was led
into the domain in which Ehe and her
husband we're to make most Important
discoveries, and after that occupied hor-
self particularly wlth~,tbe rays emitted
by the compounds OF these two metals.
Finally, toward the end Of 1895, the Acad-
envy OF Sciences received communica-
tlon that may, be considered as marking
an epoch. and inu which NJ and Nine.
,Curie positively confirmed what they had
already announced as to new and
strongly radioactive substance contained
in pitch-blende.
The found a new element to which
they gave the name Of polonium. evil
IDENTIFY In remembrance Of the country
OF Marie Sklodowska. and afterwards
discovered another element having the
chemical appearance OF nearly pure bar
ium, but nevertheless very different
therefronl. This was radiuln, the we'll
named substance that was to revolu-
tionize modern chemistry. Following this,
success, the communications OF the two
scientists began to multiply subs tances
and It's diverse properties. They showed
especially that the rays emitted by polo
MUM and raduIn are capable OF COM
lnunicatng radlo-activitys to naturally in
active substances,f8a fact that led NJ.
Becquerel. whose labors had prepared the
way for those or the Curles. to demon
strate and importance OF the new dis
&cevery. rs
Of ratlium was Appreciated as far back
as 1901. when the Academy Of Sciences
awarded the I.ai5 Gaze prize of 10000
francs to NJ. Pierre Curle, while asso-
ciatng With his name that Of his wife.
a short time afterward, Nine. Cnrie put
chemistry in possession Of a relatively
large quantity of radium. she having,
by very troublesome fractional crystall-
cations, obtained a decgramme Of per-
fectly pure chloride, which allowed her
finally to determine the atomic weight Of
this body. A little later on M. Curie
aided by NJ. Laborde. made some very
curious observations upon The heat con-
tinually disengaged BY the salts Of
ladium.
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