Show DEATH OF MME CURIE Few women have attained exceptional exceptional eminence in the scientifIc scientific world partIcularly in the field of original research An of Marie l Curie discoverer co-discoverer amazing amazing e cep exception was few days at the age of 66 She who dIed in France a ago was unquestIonably the greatest w woman man chemIst and physicist who ever lived Mme me Curie was boin in Val saw Poland and was a pupil of Pierre Curie Curle m in ParIS theIr marrIage In 1898 while e experimenting peri- peri with radioactive substances in their laboratory they dis- dis discovered discovered covered and isolated the powerful element to whIch they gave the name of radium For thIS epochal discovery the CurIes were awarded the Nobel prIze in physics in 1903 For achievements in chemistry l ime Curie Curle was again given the Nobel prize in 1911 Her husband was kIlled In an accident in 1906 after which she succeeded him as chief professor of physics in the University of Paris She visited America a few years ago and was acclaimed b by scientists and the public During her years ears of experimenting with radium Mme Curie Curle lIke numbers of others who have worked with this powerful and dangerous substance suffered from Its effects which contributed to the Illness which caused her death Thus fie joins that noble band of mal martyrs who have sacrifIced themselves themselves for lor the benefit of humanity r |