Show Necrology Some Eminent Chemists The Boston Herald said editor-iall- v that the world suffered a greater loss in the death of Curie than the loss occasioned by the San Francisco disaster that occurred the same week In justification of this statement Mr A D Little has said “The qualitv of intellectual leadership is one of the rarest and most precious possessions of our race and the world can better afford to lose a city or province than one of its great investigators philosophers or teachers” Fortunately the world has a large number of great men at the present time engaged in research work in chemistry physics mathematics and biology but it is a matter of universal regret that within a year not less than half a dozen of the keenest intellects the world has ever known have been taken from us Four out of this number were chemists whose brilliant discoveries have enriched our knowledge of almost every phase of the science of chemistry Among the greatest of present-da- y whose splendid scientists achievements have rendered possible things more marvelous than the earlier chemists could even imagine were Curie Moissan Alendeleeff and Berthelot Pierre Curie was born in 1859 He received his education in Paris As a boy he was unusually quick to grasp the significance of scientific principles and at the age of nineteen he was making original investigations in physics and chemistry At the age of twenty he was elected professor of chemistry in the Paris Institute of Technology The same year Marie Sklodowska an intellectual young woman from Poland registered at the same school became a student of Curie’s and later became his wife e Curie was equal to her d in educational attainments and ability to do research work She discovered an element closely related to bismuth which she named polonium in honor of her native land Mme Curie is entitled to at least half the credit for the discovery of radium and the careful study that has been made by the Curies on the elements properties of radio-activ- e and compounds Pierre Curie took the degree Doctor of Science at the University of Paris in He publishd his first work 1905 on radium in 1898 and from that time until his death he made valuable contributions to science each year He discovered that the radium are of three kinds differ- hus-Km- co-operat- ive |