Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-07-23 | Page 1 | Radium Expert Loses His Hands Solving Secret

RADIUM EXPERT LOSES HIS HANDS mm SECRET i Experiments With Precious' Substance Result Disastrous- j ly for French Scientist PARIS, July 23. The most precious thing in the world radium has costi 'harles Infroit, scientist here, hla left, hand and his right arm and he wantsj artificial arms now to continue his re-i Bearcta Infroit la head of the nitrate works and his experiments with radium ra-dium are umong tin niott valuable in science. During the war he devised a I "compass" to locate splinters of bul-i leta in the skull and was made a cheva,-j lier of the Legion of Honor. He lost his right arm first and then several fingers of his left hand and finallj the whole hand, never hesitating at the sacrifice he was making for science.