Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-22
Madame Cur;ie

the many famous European personages
( ] who have paid visits to America since
the war, one of the most eagerly await
ed is Madame Marie Curie, of Paris who will
come to the United States in he middle of
May.
Madame Curie received the Nobel prize for
chemistry in 1911. She it was who, with her
late husband, gave to the world one of it's
greatest gifts in the discovery of rad1um.
Though as yet it is but little understood its
results as a curative agent already are con-
sidered marvellous and it's discovery has
opened up new avenue of research with I'M
told possibilities for the benefit of mankind
Madame Curie, considered the worlds fore
most womaL scientist or today, is an inter-
esting personality. She is not French
woman, though most of her work has been
done in Paris and she is professor and lee
turer at the famous Sorbonne University. She
is a daughter of Poland, born in Warsaw
fifty-six years ago, the daughter Of an old
family of able Polish scientists.
A writ.r in the New York Evening Post,
discussing Madame Curie's career, says: CDR.
Ladislausn SkloLowski, Madame Curie's
father was professor Of physics at Warsaw,
and he inspired in his little daughter the de-
votion which finally led her through exhaust
ing labors to the discovery Of the most fas-
cinating substance which man knows. From
careless hours of baby days. playing with
test tubes and retorts in her fathers labora-
tory, Marie Curie climbed the high path of
scientific attainment to her discovery OF
radium, to her winning of the Nobel prize
and to her present place the only woman
who has held a chair in the Sorbonne."
Madame Curie is coming to America prl-
marily to receive from a group OF New York
women a gift valued at one hundred thou
sand dollars. This is nothing less than a
gram of the precious radium, mere thimble-
full, ye. enough to enable her to undertake
experiments which may prove invaluable to
the world. 1t is said that when Madame
Curie completes the experiments she con-
templates, the gram of radium may still be
employed for two thousand years or more for
curative purposes An Idea OF the fabulous
worth of the gift may he obtained when it is
stated that it takes to produce gram OF
radium more than five hundred tons Of canon
tie ore, treated in long and complicated proc
esses with some\five hundred tons of other
chemicals. The gram will take fou- thou
sand years to ''evaporate."
In continuing her work into the nature and
application of radium, Madame Curie claims
to have evolved new theory fer the explana-
ton of the earth's heat which may revolution
ize previous opinions on the 1ubject of evolu-
ton. AS to it's curative powers, she says that
radium rays already have been demonstrated
cure for certain maladies, including ul-
GERS, lupus, birthmarks, granulation of the
eyelids and other affections of the skin. Dur
ing the war radium was used successfully in
treating Injected wounds and sores where
healing had been arrested. Still more i'm
portant are the numb:r of deep cancers that
have been healed by radium-a phase of ex-
pertinent which may result in even greater
successes as time goes on.
Not only will Madame Curie's visi to
America De hailed with keen interest be-
cause of err celebrated achievements in the
realm of science, but the world will watch
eagerly what purposes she accomplishes in
the use of the valuable gift American woman
hood will present her.