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AMAR
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MARIE AND PIERRE CURIE
Marie Sklodovska was bom in Poland at a time when women were
KATHA PIERRE CURIE
THEY SHARED A PASSION FOR SCIENCE
not allowed admission into colleges. Determined to study science,
Marie worked as a governess and saved enough to enroll in a
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It was in Paris that she met and married Pierre Curie, a respected >*

physicist. Their passion for science and their devotion to each other,
resulted in a partnership that produced two Nobel Prizes (one
shared by Pierre and Marie, one for Marie alone), two daughters
(one of whom, Irene, also won a Nobel Prize later), two new
elements (Radium and Polonium) and an entire new kind of energy -
radioactivity.

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 PIERRE AND MARIE CURIE
IT WAS A SUNPAy MORNING- THE
GOVERNMENT HIGH SCHOOL /N
WARSAW WAS STEEPED IN
silence, all of a scippen the
silence was broken fiy the
SHRILL CRIES OF CHILDREN
( AIM AT
^Athe tower

THERE WERE FOUR OF THEM , THE CH/LPREN OF JOSEPH, BRONYA, HELA AND MANYA HAP
PROFESSOR SKLODOVSK/f THE SC/ENCE TEACHER CONVERTED 7HE/R BEDROOM INTO A SETTLE-
OF THE SCHOOL , AND THEY WERE PLAYING A WAR FIELD AND THEIR TOTS INTO WEAPONS OF
WAR. JUST THEN—

N\ANYAi THE YOUNGEST, RELUCTANTLY LEFT MANYA WAS THE PET NAME OF MARYA
ON HEARING HER MOTHER 9S VOICE. SKLODOVSKA WHO LATER 6A/NED RAM
AS MARIE CURIE
OH, MY MANyA. HOW
REP TOU ARE, HOW ROU6H
70UR HAIR HAS BECOME!

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MANYA'S MOTHER MS SUFFERING FROM
tuberculosis, a fact th/tt she had kept
HlPPEN FROM HER CHILDREN. I-
PIERRE AND MARIE CURIE
FLUENTLY MAN VP READ OUT THE F/RST CONFUSEO AT The SURPRISED LOOK ON HER
SENTENCE OVER WHICH &RONVP HAD PARENTS*FACE, MANVP 1—TTT
STUMBLED. THE OLDER SISTER CRIED WITH STOPPED..J-1 1
l EMBARRASSMENT.
BOO >
H00' j

I manya learnt to repp rather casuall y
lire Wise teachers, her parents made 1 AT MISS SfKORSKA’S SCHOOL TOR VOUNG
BRONYA ARRANGED LETTERS MADE OF PEPER SURE THAT THE INQUISITIVE AND INTELLIGENT LADIES, HER QUICK ABILITY TO LEARN MADE
' CHILD BECAME INTERESTED IN THINGS OTHER : MANVP THE YOUNGEST AND BRIGHTEST PUPIL
I THAN READING ALSO. |-\- I IN THE CLASS. |-:-
COME, US
s. A SONG,
\ MAmVA

when seven-year-old bronva faltered POLAND WHS AT THE TIME GOVERNED BY

IMPERIAL RUSSIA. THE MEDIUM OF EDUCAT/ON TAUGHT A FEW LESSONS IN POUSH ONE
WAS RUSSIAN AND OFF/C/ALS OF THE TSAR SUCH DRY
CONTROLLED THE SCHOOLS. I-— SO THE POLISH
CHILPRENI KING
TOPAy ine will
LEARN THE USE
OF VERBS IN
RUSSIAN. .

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AMAR CHITRA KATHA AFTER A LONG Pi „

QUESTIONS ANP ANSWERS, THE INSPECTOR
AFTER HE HAD
MANTA..
% THE

jwo long Rings anp iyjo short ones on k- f r ' w

7HEIR SECRET LESSONS.

-- - —
WAS SET/SPIED. COME HERE,
THE BELL. TT WAS THEIR SECRET SIGNAL MY LITTLE
WARNING Of THE RUSSIAN INSPECTOR c SOUL1
ARRIVAL.
£
HURRV! PUT
AW Ay TOUR
POLISH
&OCKS- /

... AND
THE POREHEAP.

HER SISTERS BRONYA AND NEC A QU/E U V

PIL EP UP CHA/RS TO PORN A cA&TLE OVER*
THE MOTIONLESS MAWYA._[

NOT ME. PLEASE GOP-,
NOT ME- LET HER
CALL SOMEONE ELSE.
rr WAS ONLY half AN HOUR later when I QUT THIS POWER OP CCWCENTRHT/ON HELPED
BUT SHE WAS CALLEPj AS USUAL , BEING THE SHE HAP COMPLETED A CHAPTER OP HER MANVA W/N A GOLD MEDAL AT THE AASS/NG-
NOST KNOWLEDGEABLE ANP FLUENT IN BOOK THAT SHE GOTUP [ 0U7 EXAM INAT/ON OP HER SECONDARY
Russian♦ to answer the inspector’s
GiUEST/ONS. [ His MATE STY
ALE^NPER 31 *
TSAR OF ALL

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PIERRE AND MARIE CURIE
HFR FATHER NAS PEL/GATED WITH HER TOR 1HE FIRST AND 7H£ LAST T/ME fN HER LIFE,
JOSEPH WAS STltPy/NG TO BECOME A HER FATHER HAP LOST ALL H/S SAVINGS IN
SUCCESS. HER MOTHER HAP MEANWHILE MANYA SPtNT A WHOLE YEAR HOLIDAYING IN THF
doctor Out warsaw offered no scope A BAP INVESTMENT. T
DfFD OF TUBERi HLOSJS FOR FURTHER. STUDIES FOR WOMEN.
-zAi }!// -r THE SOR0CNNE \ OH t HOW I
UNIVERSITY in| PARIS I W'SH 1 CDULP
ALLOWS WOMEN TO A AFFORD TO SEND
srupy science anp/TKtqu there
MEPICINE X A

fT WAS A HOLIDAY FULL OF GA/E7Y AND FUN, PL A Y/NG r FOR THE DANCES AND BALLS MANYA
UTILE GAMES, COLLECTING AND R/D/NG converted her ordinary press
IN A SLEIGH LN THE MCONUGWF INTO A PARTY GOWN BY ADP/Ng
WE MUST
START EARNING
X \

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ONCE* ON A FEST7ME OCCASION. SHE PANTED ON HER RETURN FROM THE WONDERFUL HOLIDAY
AT SEVENTEEN, MANVA BEGAN TC GIVE with other young students »*% va shared
' PRIVATE TUITIONS, j-T the secret dream of a free a?, and. ■
we must buhp up the 7ES? )
INTELLECTUAL LE\tL But how<?;
OF OUR PEOPLE. . ' V

HAD NORN OFF

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the Russians, who ruled Poland, did not
ENCOURAGE THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW IDEAS
AND ADVANCED LEARNING SO PATR/OT/C
TEACHERS GAVE FREE LESSONS SECRETLY TO
INTERESTED STUDENTS.
DARWIN! WSTEUR* HOW
EXCITING THEIR WORK ,

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&RONY/9 AND MANY# HAD NOT FORGOTTEN THE/R bRONVA HAD TAKEN OVER THE CARE OF THE LISTEN,you START BUT HOW CvAN n bUT MANYA HAD MADE QP HER MIND.
DREAMS OF HIGHER EDUCAT/CYV. \- HOUSEHOLD EVER SINCE THEIR MOTHER’S WITH TOUR MONEY. J GO 0^1 TOUR 1
TOO ARE OLDER, TOU
TES, GOING TO DEATH- MANYA FELT SORRY FOR HER ELDER i will genp you \ MONEY 2 ./ MAHYA,
MONEY &y TAXING must go first, later
STUDY IN PARIS SISTER. MY
v UP A JOB- y WHEN TOU BECOME
is go costly V A DOCTOR,TOU MUST ,

ON JANUARY 1,1696, AT THE AGE OF IS, AFTER A LONG JOURNEY* SHE WAS RECEIVED
MANYA LEFT WARSAW TO TAKE UP A JOB IN/TH HOT TEA Aa/D FRIENDLY WORDS.
AS A GOVERNESS IN THE COUNTRY.

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PIERRE AND MARIE CURIE
MANYft REMEMBERED HER RE SOL VE 70 EDUCATE afraid of displeasing his parents,
7he Poor fint> gave secret lessons /n polish CASlMIR BROKE OFF HIS RELATIONSHIP
70 village children, f WITH MANYA, |-—
I 64N’T BEAK TO STAY
HERE. PUT THE PAY 15
TOO GOOP. I MUST
SWAUOW MV PRiPE
ANP GO ON AS ST FORE.

rr VJAS A HARD UFE INlTH FEN PLEASURES. BRONYA MEANWHILE PASSED HER EXAM AND I
&UT SOON there WAS good NEWS. WAS TO MARRY A POUSH CLASSMATE, CASlMIR

FATHER HAS RETIRED

WITH A PENSION
ANP HAS GOT
ANOTHER JOB. HE
SAYS HE tNILL
SEND MONEY TO
BRONYA.I
NEED NOT DO
SO ANYMORE

MANYA TOO HAD BECOME ENAMOURED OF &UT H/S PORENTs WHO HEP treated her go
7HB HANDSOME COLLEGE STUDENT, THEY NELL AS GOVERNESS REFUSER TO ACCEPT HER
FELL /At LOVE RHP PL AWED TO MERRY. PS A pauchter-utlan [-
you cannot marry
A GOVERNESS,
/•Ac.1 /VUP I

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SHE TRAVELLED THIRD CLASS THROUGH POLAND PIERRE AND MARIE CURIE
AND FOURTH CLASS THROUGH GERMANY. MARIE, AS SHE NAS NON KNOMN, although she mas com fortasle nnd nappy wtth
SMILED, HER GREY EVES SH/N/M& BRONVA AND HER HUSBAND, SHE FOUND THE/R
LUCKY I e>ROUGHT WITH DELIGHT. — HOUSE TOO FAR FROM THE UNIVERSITY.
THIS FOLPlNG &RONYA.I MUST I SUPPOSE SO,
HOW EXCITING
V CHAlR. FINP A PLACE THOUGH WE LOVE
SCIENCE CAN BE'
BETTER WAN AI NEARER WE TO HAVE YOU
FAIRY TALE OR college • With us.
novel i’ve ever
REAP.

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ON REACHING PARIS , SHE TOOK A DEEP
BREATH, FOR THE FIRST TIME BREATHING
f at the sorbonne she registered herself
at the faculty of science,spelling her
NAME IN THE FRENCH MANNER.
MARIE FOUND A TINY ATTIC ON THE SIXTH I THE ROOM HAD NO HEAT AND NO MATER. THE
FLOOR OF A HOUSE NEAR 7HE UNIVERSITY. ONLY L/GHT CAME FROM A SMALL SKYLIGHT.
WELL, IT'S
ALL X CAN
AFFORP1

| AMONG HER FAVOURITE TEACHERS MAS PAUL MARIE TRIED ALL SORTS OF MAYS 70 SAVE ON RETURNING HOME SHE NTE A SIMPLE
APPELL, h/HO TAUGHT MATHEMAT/cs /N A MONEY. SHE STUDIED AT A NEARBY LIBRARY MEAL OF BREAD, BUTTER AjvD FRUfT.
TILL TEN O CLOCK AT NIGHT, TO SAVE FUEL
FOR THE LAMP nam ^ mm ANP MEAT IS VERY
BRIGHT HERE. EXPENSIVE ANP
TAKES TOO LONG
TO COOK ON My
TINY HEATER-

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FOR OVER THREE VEER'S SHE LIVED A HERMIT’S CAS/MIR FELT VERY UNHAPPY FOR HE PREVAILED UPON HER To GO W/TH HIM TO
ON THIS POOR DIET AND LONG HOURS OF WORK,
NEGLECTING H/S SISTER-iN-LAW. HIS HOUSE WHERE HE ORDERED 8RONYA TO RUSH
LIFE, DEVOTED TO STUDY EL ONE. TILL TWO marie soon became wean and anaemic. TO THE KITCHEN SOON— (-7-
OyCLOcK AT NIGHT SHE WOULD SlT WITH COLLECT YOUR --1 / the pocT0R’&
HER BOONS. N\y HEAD SWIMS THINGS ANP
i must polish up mv EVERY Time I &ET UP ORDERS' THESE
COME WITH ARE YOUR
FRENCH TO PERFECTION. FROM THE TABLE. V ME. U
s my knowledge BUT 1 CAN’T AFFORD
OF MATHS AND TO BE SICK.
PHYSICS IS NOT
GOOP COMPARED
TO THAT OF MY
FRENCH CLASS¬
MATES.

FOR SEVERAL DAYS SHE STAYED W/TH MARIE WAS BACK IN HER ROOM AND WAS SOON
BRONYA WHO FED HER WELL AND LOOKED DEEPLY ABSORBED W HER STUDIES. SHE HAD
ONE DAY MARIE FAINTED /N FRONT OF HER SOON CAS!MIR, BRONYA's HUSBAND, CAME TO DECIDED TO DO HER MASTER'S DEGREE NOT
CLASSMATE who PROMPTLY GAVE the news MARIE yS LITTLE AT7/C. I- ONLY IN PHYSICS BUT /N MATHEMATICS ALSO.
TO BRONVA.

EAGER. TO make UP FOR LONG YEARS OF

SOLITARY STUDY, SHE ATTENDED ALL POSSIBLE
HE LOOKED AROUND CAREFULLY BUT COULD CASIMIR REPEATED THE QUEST/ON W/TH H/S COURSES ■ IN TUL Y, IQ 93, SHE APPEARED FOR
NOT F/ND ANYTHING to EAT. HE UNDERSTOOD VOICE RAISED AND SOON FOUND OUT THE
AT ONCE. HER MASTER'S DEGREE EXAMINATION IN
TRUTH. PHYSICS. AS WAS THE CUSTOM. THE RESULTS
what did
YOU EAT OH, ALL so all you’ve eaten WERE ANNOUNCED IN THE ORDER OF MERIT.
SORTS OF SINCE YESTERDAY IS THE FIRST NAME_ WAS -
TODAY2
THINGS. a bundle of radishes MARIE SkLODOVSRA!
And some cherries
AND SLEPT ONLY FOR
FOUR HOURS.

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SINCE HER D'SAPPO/NTMEVT* MARIE HAD MEANWHILE IN PAR'S THERE LIVED A FRENCH
RULED OUT LOVE END MARR/AGE PROM HER ,
SCIENTIST WHO TOO DEVOTED BODY AND SOUL
LIFE. AT TWENTY-SIX HER ONl Y PASS/ON to scientific research—p/erre cur/e.
WAS SCIENCE, r
RONANCE 15 NOT
.MEANT FOR POOR
&RL3.1 SHALL DEVOTE
MYSELF TO WORK

WHO WAS P/ERRE CURIE R HE WAS THE SON WHEN MARIE MET PIERRE FOR THE FIRST PIERRE TOO WAS DRAWN TO THE LIVELY AND
I realising the brill iance of young Pierre,
OF A PHYSICIAN, DR. EUGENE CURIE, WHOSE DR. CURIE HAD NOT SENT HIM 70 SCHOOL. HE TIME AT THE HOUSE OF A FR/END — CLEAR- HEADED S/RL .
love FOR science was inherited by HIS HAD ARRANGED TOR HIS EDUCATION AT HOME - HIS EVES HAVE HOW PEU6HTFUL TO FlNP A
TWO SONS JACQUES AND PIERRE- SUCH A FRANK goop-looking girl
EXPRESSION ANP WHO CAN DISCUSS
tlOlN WELL HE ^ PHYSICS ANP MATHS SO
W i INTELLIGENTLY.

I pierre curie had gut his bachelor of
science degree at sixteen and H/S
' MASTER’S DEGREE in PHYSICS At !0 /N THE
I SAME TEAR /&7R, HE HAD BECOME A
laboratory Assistant at the sorbonne
where he performed His first major
RESEARCH worn. I-—-
THE FRIENDSHIP THAT BLOSSOMED BETWEEN ONE DAY AS SHE MADE TEA FOR HIM IN HER
WITH HIS ELDER BROTHER JACQUES HE STUDIED
THE BRILL IA NT FRENCH PHYSICIST AND THE LITTLE ROOM, HE DESCRIBED HtS PARENTS
crystals and discovered piezoelectricity*
sifted polish student was AND HIS CHILDHOOD.
THEY INVENTED A NEW APPARATUS —THE
STRENGTHENED BY THEIR MUTUAL PASSION
piezoelectric quartz.
FDR SCIENCE.
OH' HE’S SENT
ME HIS LATEST
RESEARCH
PAPER.
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THE IDEA OF CHOOSING BETWEEN A FAMILY TOGETHER THEY LOOKED THROUGH THE LATEST
EVEN FOR HER CEREMONY MARIE CHOSE A
AND RESEARCH D/D NOT OCCUR TO MARIE. RESEARCH PAPERS IN PHYSICS ]-
simple press. |-- AFTER a while, WITH A NURSE TO HELP THESE X-RAYS ANP HENRI BECfiUEREl
WHY NOT A TRAP/TiONAL XT WILL NOT BE WITH THE BABY, MARIE RETURNED 70 THE DISCOVERED BV
LABORATORY f
HAS PISCOVEREP
WHITE WEPPlNG GOWN, /ABLE TO WEAR IT TO YES,LET US ROENTGEN ARE Similar RAY5 LOMING
MARIE 2 THE LABORATORY NOW I MUST LOOK FOR A FASCINATING. THEY FROM URANIUM
START WORK suitable CAN 60 THROUGH
ON N\y OBJECTS.
doctorate

7HE MARRIAGE TURNED OUT TQ BE A UNIQUE OW OHt CCULU NCTI HNO H HRQHcR HLHCE TO
PARTNERSHIP OF LOVE AND GENIUS. MAR/E conduct her research r
REALISE? THAT SHE COULD NO LONGER LIVE ALL X ZoULPGET~~W^ IT'S QUITE PARK
ON FRUIT AND BREAD. IS THIS LITTLE / \ ANP HUMID BUT ..
THANKS TO THE COOKING WLVPSHEP^^ ^ NEVER MlNP. ^
LESSONS I TOOK FROM
SR0NVA,1 CAN COOK
A PE LENT MEAL FOR
PiPPPP
rr

BESIDES DOING THE HOUSEWORK, MAR/E
SPENT A FULL DAT DOING RESEARCH AT
PIERRE’S LABORATORY. BOTH OTUD'ED AT
home till late in the n/uht.
IN THE SECOND NEAR OF THEIR MARRIAGE
THEIR DAUGHTER IRENE WAS BORN.
IT WAS IN THfLT MARE-SHIFT LABORATORY MARIE EXAMINED ALL KNOWN CHEMICALS TO
THAT MARIE STUDIED URANIUM rats SEARCH FOR SPONTANEOUS RA>S S/M/lAR TO
THE RAYS GIVEN OUT BY URANIUM.
THORIUM ALSO HAS
A PROPERTV LIKE
URANIUM ANP
6IVE5 OUT SULN

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AMAR CHITRA KATHA
WHILE MAKING THESE STARTLING
Discoveries in the laboratory,
HOUSEWIFE WAS EQUALLY SYSTEMAT/C ABOUT
HER DOMEST/C CHORES.
J TOOK EIGHT
POUNDS OF FRUIT AN P
\ND OBTAINED
BUT FOR THIS THEY REQUIRED A LARGE
QUANTITY OF PITCHBLENDE. |-
RADIUM IS ABOUT ] 1 TBS, WE'LL NE6P
A MILLIONTH / TONS AND TONS
PIERRE NOW JOINED IN HEN, SEARCH THEY
worked patiently with the hard pitch¬
blende. USING SOME OF 7HE APPARATUS
INVENTED EARLIER BY PIERRE IN 169A, THEY
succeeded in finding not one But two
meanwhile , although they had detected
THE PRESENCE OF RADIUM IN PATCHBLENDE,
THEY HAD NOT ISOLATED TT/N ITS PURE FORM.
THEY DUG INTO THEIR SAVINGS TO PAY FOR THE
TRANSPORT OF THE ORE FRO/M THE MINES IN
BOHEMIA IN GERMANY THEIR EXCITEMENT ON
DELIVERY OF THEIR PRECIOUS CARGO WAS
UNBELIEVABLE. | \up. M,|<;T troiigHT
AREN’T WE LUCKY? j US MAD TO WANT THE LEFT-
THE OWNER OF THE / OVER ORE AFTER THE
MINE GAVE US URANIUM HAD BEEN
ore free, y extracted.
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PIERRE AND MARIE CURIE
FOR FOUR LONG YEARS THEY WORKED W THE
SHED. IN !90Z , SHE SUCCEEDED IN PREPARING
A 7/NY QUANTITY OF PURE RADIUM. ONE
NIGHT AFTER PUTTING IRENE TO BED—
MARIE, |S SOMETHING/ LET’S GO TO THE
N weighing on Your Y shed, i wantto
MIND? ^^y\SHOW YOU SOME¬
THING-
I there in the darkness , they gazed at iN 1900, MARIE WAS APPOINTED A LECTURER IN
j THE MYSTERIOUS GLOW OF PURE RADIUM. IT PHYSICS AT A SCHOOL FOR GIRLS. J-
WAS A MAGICAL MOMENT THE Y SHARED AND
MADAME CURIE’S
TREASURED FOREVER. YES, 5HE EXPLAINS
CLASSES ARE
SUCH FUN. EVERYTHING WfTH
REAL EXPERIMENTS
BY HOW THE MANY PRACTICAL USES OF RADIUM BUT NEITHER MARU
IN MEDICINE HAD BEEN FOUND. IN 1903 MARIE ENOUGH TO ATTEND THE FUNCTION IN STOCKHOLM.
and Pierre cur/e were awarded the IN DECEMBER 1903, MAR/E CURIE BECAME THE
Nobel prize for phys/cs along with FIRST WOMAN SCIENTIST OF THE WORLD TO
HENRI 6ECQUEREL ACHIEVE INTERNATIONAL FAME. |-
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BESIDES NAME AND FAME THE PRIZE BROUGHT AS THE ORIGINAL PRODICERS OF RAP/UN. A
770.000 GOLP FRANCS T FORTUNE COULD Be 7heirs FOR the Asalng.
J As THEIR FRIENDS POINTED OUT
NOW WE CAN and we can
AFEORP TO SET SOME REPAIRS/ •you know radium RADIUM IS SO USEFUL
APPOINT A K PONE AT HOME COSTS $150,OOOA TO MANKIND. WE
LABORATORY GRAM IF YOU FILED SHOULD NOT MAKE
ASSISTANT A PATENT, YOU COULD
BE MILLIONAIRES.

IN 1904 THEIR SECOND DAUGHTER. EVE IN !90Ei PIERRE WAS MADE A PROFESSOR AT
WAS PORN. THE SORBONNE. HE WAS GIVEN A LABORATORY SHE WAS APPOINTED AS A PROFESSOR IN HER NOVEMBER Si 1906-THE DAY OF HER FIRST
TOO- ONE DAY HUSBAND'S PLACE—THE FIRST WOMAN LECTURE. THE HALL WAS FILLED WTH SCIENTISTS
HOW FORTCl NATE. I HAVE PROFESSOR AT THE SOR&ONNE. j- STUDENTS, NEWSPAPERMEN AND CURIOUS
BEEN APPOINTED X MUST ONLOOKERS |—-
DIRECTOR OF YOUR WORK HARD AND WHEN ONE CONSIDERS WHAT
LABORATORY WITH A BE WORTHY OF S BEEN DONE iN PHYSIOS IN
GOOD SALARY. AT Pierre's THE PAST TEN YEARS,ONE IS
LAST 1 HAVE AN SURPRISED AT THE ADVANCES
OFFICIAL RI6HTT0BE THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE iN
IN YOUR LABORATORY, OUR IDEAS CONCERNING

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NOW 7HET WERE 7RUL y HAPP*, THESE 7WO
PEOPLE 0p GENIUS DISCUSSING 7HEIR IDEAS
THROUGHOUT 7HE PAY.
/
MARtE HAD BEGUN HER FIRST LECTURE AT THE
EXACT POINT WHERE P'ERRE HAD LEFT OFF MS
LAST CLASS
SOMETIMES THEY MANAGED TO <5ET AWAY
FROM WORK FOR A HOLIDAY /N THE COUNTRY¬ so rr was that ten lfttie students , all
SIDE. f7- children OF professors, l/steyed to a
-7 LIFE HAS BEEN LECTURE EVERY DAY INSTEAD OF GOING TO A
SWEET WITH YOU, REGULAR SCHOOL. r

THIS IS FUti'OHiy
ONE SUBJECT TO

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PE SITES TEACHING THE LAWS OF PHYSICS, SHE SCIENTISTS IN HER NATIVE POLAND SET UP A THOUGH SHE WAS ILL, MARIE WENT TO WARSAW
EACH PROFESSOR TOOK CLASSES IN HIS OWN TOR THE INAUGURATION OF THE LABORATORY.
TAUGHT THEM TV USE THE COMMON SENSE LABORATORY OF RADIOACTIVITY /N WARSAW
SUBJECT MARIE TAUGHT PHYSICS.
approach. AND INVITED HER TO RETURN 70 HER
NO BOOKS.* 1 WE SHALL \ NOW WHAT WOULD HMM... HOMEL AND
WRAP IT IN THEY WANT ME TO BECOME
MAKE OUR OWN TOO VO TO KEEP THE DIRECTOR. I CANNOT
APPARATUS AND learn THE LIQUID IN WOOL?
ACCEPT BUT I WILL SBNP
THIS POT HOT-? ^ TWO OF MV BEST ASSISTANTS.
USE A
SAND

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ON AN IMPULSE MARIE HURR/ED TO THE OLD f IN PARIS TOO, AN INSTITUTE OF RAD/OM) WAS
lady and kissed her on both cheeks. BEING BUILT. IN JULY f9/4 FT WAS READY.
AT LAST1 MX DREAM
HAS COME TRUE • AN
INSTITUTE WORTHY OF
PI E RRE.

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n WAS MISS S/KORSKA in whose SCHOOL
MARIE HAP BEGUN HER EDUCATION. SHE WEFT
WITH PR/DE AND JOY Aj THE SUCCESS OF
1 HER •STUDENT.

Besides these unusual classes which
LASTED two TEARS, IRENE AND EVE LEAR!
TO RIDE, SWIM,CLIMB MOUNTAINS .COON
AND SEW j-
PESP/TE HER FAILING HEALTH,MARE CONTINUED HER THAT WAS THE YEAR WORLD WART BROKE MOST OF THE SOL PIERS WERE TREATED AT
OUT. MARIE DEVOTED HER&EL F TO HELPING TEMPORARY MAKE- SHIFT HOSF/TAlS
INTENSE RESEARCH IN 1911, SHE NAS ANARDED
the army medical service [~
SECOND NOBEL PRIZE, THIS TIME IN CHEMISTRY- SAE NAS HOW CAN I REACH ^
THE FIRST PERSON TO RECEIVE THE HONOUR TWICE THEM IN TIME? I
MOST OF THE HOSPITALS VO NOT
LITTLE IRENE NHO ATTENDED THE FUNCTION WITH
have any x-ray equipment. KNOW ■ I MUST HAVE )
HER MOTHER WAS TO RECEIVE THE SAME PR/ZE A MOBILE X-RAY
TWENTY FOUR YEARS LATER. _ 1 MUST DO SOMETHING. IT UNIT. T WILL PUT
WOULD BE VERY USEFUL
FOR DETECT/NO THE A PNNAMO
INJURIES of the
SOLDIERS N ORDINARY
WOUNDED | N

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she Also arranged to set up200 x- RAY IRENE, NOW 17, BEGAN TO HELP HER MOTHER, MRS. MALONEY WAS AN ARDENT ADMIRER OF MARIE CURIE WAS INVITED TD AMERICA . IN 192.1,
ROOMS IN P/PPERENT PARTS OP THE WHO FOUND A CHARMING AND INTELLIGENT MARIE CURIE. ON HER RETURN TO AMERICA WITH HER DAUGHTERS , SHE SET SAIL.

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COUNTRY, r --r COMPANION IN HER TEENAGE DAUGHTER, SHE ARRANGED A COLLECTION DRIVE AMONG
vgiLL IT > V MO, MO. IT'S JUST AMERICAN WOMEN-SOON—• I-^

I MARIE GAVE UP All HER SAVINGS INCLUDING WHEN THE WAR ENDED AT LAST IN 19/0, MARIE
I THE MONEY OF the SECOND NOBEL PRIZE WAS POUBLY HAPPY. t—- . mm t-

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ON JUNE 28, THEY RETURNED TO PARIS IN IN WARSAW, BRONYA, MARtE*S ELDER SISTER
the next pew years marie visaed WHO HAD ALWAYS BEEN A GREAT SUPPORT,
ONE DAY, AN AMERICAN JOURNALIST, MRS.
MALONEY VISITED THE RADIUM INSTITUTE ■
SEVERAL COUNTR/ES WAS BUSY.
MARIE'S OREAT
NHAJ WOULD DON’T you WISH DREAMERS DO
TOU LIKE TO
DESIRE IS TO HAVE
you HAD patented NOT deserve
A RADIUM INSTITUTE
, POSSESS THE TOUR DISCOVERIES, WEALTH BECAUSE IN vVAR-SAW ^
\ MOST2 /VIAHAM CURIE? THEY DO NOT
DESIRE IT

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 AMAR CHITRA KATHA
PIERRE AND MARIE CURIE
PEOPLE RESPONDED ENTIUIS/AST/CALL X /N t92S~
A COUNTRY- WIDE COLLECTION DRIVE WAS SOMETIME S> WAY! A/D BY 7HEIR QllERlf S AND AFTFR FORTY YEARS OF RESEARCH MAP/E COR/£
MARlE WPS MV/TED TO LAY THE CORNER STONE
LAUNCHED USING POSTERS AND POSTC PROS COMMENTS, 'SHF WOO/D F/ND HI Rst // ON WAS A UV/No ENcYCLOPAEP/A ON ThE SUBJECT
OF THE INSTITUTE. THE PRESIDENT OP THE
THE STEPS Ot THE INSTITUTE OF RADIUM. TFT FEW OF HFR STUDENTS SUS-
REPUBLIC LA ID THE FIRST STONE PND MARIE,
PFi TED HER FAILING £ YESlGHT AND HEARING
7NT SECOND, THE PRESIDENT, INHO HAD BEEN
HER COMRADE IN PAR/S, RECALLED 7HE/R
STUDENT DAYS
yes! I even
PD YOU REMEMBER REMEMBER THAT
HOW YOU LENT ME A YOU FORGOT TP
TRAVELLING CUSHION
RETURN IT TO ME.
FOR MY JOURNEY TO.
POLANP? ^

MEANWHILE IRENE HAD MARRIED FREDER/C
JOUCTTf HER. MOS7 BRILL/ANT CO-WORKER AT\
THE RADIUM /NST/TOTE IN PAR/S
—l
NO IN MARIE AND EVE L/VEP ALONE. SOMET/MES
WHEN EVE WENT OUT /N THE EVEN/NG—
AL THOUGH STRICT WITH HER STUDENTS ABOUT
THE HANDLING OF PAD/UM , MARIE TOOK , HER BED AGAIN A NUMBER OF DOCTORS
unwise Risks herself her hands had E \AMINE D HER
painful burns and her blood was no PERHAPS HER LUNGS
longer healthy, on a sunny day/n may. ARE AFFECTED. 3HE
SHOULP BE IN A
SANATORIUM.

ON HER RETURN LATE AT NIGHT SHF RELUCTANTLY SHE AGREED TOPE TURIN IO A SANATORIUM BUT IT WAS THER
WOULD FIND HER MOTHER ABSORBED* IN and yet /n the MORNING on the dot of /v/n 1
PEACEFUL DFATH ON JULY 4, I9J4 THAT THE TRUE DISEASE WAS DIAGNOSED —
1 i}i Cui AT ION St HER PAPERS SPRAwlFD An
MARIE CURIE WOULD PE AT THE INSTITUTE ~JT." —~~7
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OVER THE FLOOR, -- EACERl y AtvA/TED BY A oROUP OF HER i rut CAUSE

THE l au<u /)r uf
OF HERe
SWDBOSJ- - PFATH WAS HFR LONG
MADAM,7’V£ \ REPEATED THt E*POJ.URE TO RAP/UM
GOT SOME INTE- ) EXPERIMENT ,
REST] Nc» RESULT /AS _N lu*t >F STfcl1
TO SHOW YOU. V BY YOU

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