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Show NOBEL PRIZE HOLDS FATAL CLARE FOR 3 PARIS, March 13. To gain a Nobei prir-o seems fatal to French savants. A wagon erushed Curie's skull soon after tho prize was awarded to him for-his for-his discovery of radium. ' ' Now Trof. Meissan of . this city-is city-is .dead. To him the Nobel ehemical prize was awarded only last Dee ember for his experiments in the isolation of fluorine and his researches into its nature; na-ture; also, for his application of the clectri'i furnace to scientific uses. The fatality extends to Italy, when the aged poet C'arducci of Bologna, who received the literature prize in December, died tbe other day mourned by his King nnd all his compatriots. . Moishan was one of the most unselfish unself-ish of scientists. Had he patented his discoveries he would have been enormously enor-mously wealthy, but he gave all he learned to the sum of human knowledge know-ledge as freely as Tolstoi gives .his books. Moissan died at the height of his fame and usefulness. Having real-, ized the artificial diamond ' he long sought, he was trying to create other precious stones when fatal illness seized him. . . There was nothing of the money making spirit in Moixsan, bat incidentally incident-ally he vastly benefited commerce "and tr:ide and added to tbe Nation's wealth by. teaching new. applications of modern mod-ern chemistry to the industries. ' t . " ' ' . t |