. Review of reviews and world's work. er on pliysical science atthe Sorbonne, this being the first instance of awoman ever being appointed to such a post inFrance. Professor Curies work in electricity and onthe magnetic properties of iron and oxygen atdifferent temperatures revealed his powers to scientists a good many years ago. He came intoworld-wi(ie prominence, however, when, in 1898,a few months after his marriage with , of Warsaw, it was announced thatthe Curies had discovered radium. It was afterstudying the discovery, two years before, of regarding the spont
. Review of reviews and world's work. er on pliysical science atthe Sorbonne, this being the first instance of awoman ever being appointed to such a post inFrance. Professor Curies work in electricity and onthe magnetic properties of iron and oxygen atdifferent temperatures revealed his powers to scientists a good many years ago. He came intoworld-wi(ie prominence, however, when, in 1898,a few months after his marriage with , of Warsaw, it was announced thatthe Curies had discovered radium. It was afterstudying the discovery, two years before, of regarding the spontaneous radiationsfrom uranium that Professor and Mme. Curiehit upon the idea that such minerals might con-tain minute quantities of some substance morestrongly radio-active than anything so far proved their supposition to be cor-rect, and, after many experiments on pitchblende,they announced their discovery of article describing fully the principles and 740 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF THE T,ATE M. PIERRE CURIE. theory of radio-activity was printed in theReview of Reviews for November, 1903. , herself a doctor of science when shemarried, began even before her husband tostudy the phenomena of radio-activity, and sheand her future husband worked together in thelaboratories of the Sorbonne, patiently devoted,as they were, to their common scientific Curie always himself gave his wife the chiefcredit, and together they divided the Nobelprize, in 1903, with Dr. Becquerel. Professor Curie was born in Paris, on May 15,1859, and was educated at the Sorbonne. In1895 he became professor of physics at theSchool of Physics and Chemistry of the City ofParis, and in 1901 he was made charge de cours for physics at the Sorbonne. In 1903 he andhis wife were jointly awarded the Davy medalof the Royal Society, and in the same year theNobel prize for physics was divided betweenthem and M. Henri Becquerel. In 1904 theFrench Chamber o
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