Show Grand Old La Lady y of Science Working Twelve Hours A Day By MARY IARY KNIGHT United Press Tress Staff Correspondent PARIS April 29 UP UP Despite Despite the fact that Madame Marie Curie has passed her sixty fourth birthday she works 12 hours a day in her little laboratory at No 1 Rue Pierre Curie in the pavilion named in her honor Pavilion Curie I This Tills little woman clad almost always in a straight tailored tailored tailored tail tail- ored suit of black with a it white blouse and a black four hand tic tie fastened high at her throat is at al present working working work work- in ing on a set of experiments that are destined to modify the theory that the world now holds regarding the universe Her special is making constant and minute discoverIes discoveries eries crIes on the origin of cosmic rays An artificial ray called caned the gamma gamma gamma gam ma ray now is believed available from the atom and cosmic rays originate mate from the the formation formation of atoms out of a field of hydrogen at an unknown distance beyond the sun By shooting alpha rays lays at an atom at a point of the alphas alpha's rays ray's impact with the atom a gamma ray of great penetrating jag ins power is produced Dr Holway who has been working in collaboration with Mme Curie for fora a number of or years said that it was not certain that radium would entirely entire entire- ly Iy fulfill the ambitions held for it by scientists at its discovery but that it always would be used for certain diseases dis eases such as cancer Madame Curie is not working on anything connected with medicine at present She is concerned entirely with research work in cosmic rays ras What she finds we often orten take and make applicable to bacteriology and medicine Sh She is a tireless worker a woman of very few words but aIRS al always al- al ways RS willing to answer questions or talk about scientific matters She spends much time in traveling and arid lecturing slipping in and out of countries and md through crowds So quietly and unostentatiously docs does she live her life me and go jO about her work here it was not known until she was back at her post again that she had been seriously ill for several days She is quite well again now and according according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to physicians she seems to control her own health with the same force and determination that puts the reins of the cosmic rays of the universe universe uni uni- verse in her fragile hands |