00:00At the age of 28, the young Marie met and married a French scientist named Pierre Curie.
00:05Together in their laboratory in Paris, they shared in the research that isolated two radioactive elements, radium and polonium.
00:12Their efforts brought them a joint Nobel Prize in 1903.
00:16After the tragic death of her husband three years later, Madame Curie carried on the work alone
00:21and was awarded the Nobel Prize for an unprecedented second time in 1911 for her work in refining the radium
00:27metal itself.
00:29In 1921, she made the first of several trips to America.
00:33President Warren Harding served as the official spokesman of the Women of America
00:37in presenting the discoverer of radium with a medal and a gift of one gram of the precious stuff valued
00:42at over $50,000.
00:44Madame Curie graciously accepted America's grateful donation that would allow her to continue her research.
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00:58Again in 1929, she returned on board ship with her two grown daughters for a second donation.
01:04By now advancing old age, beginning to take its toll of the woman whose brilliant mind had isolated element 88.
01:11President Herbert Hoover proudly made the presentation of an additional gram of radium to its discoverer.
01:16Madame Curie's life work could continue with one more gram of the life-saving metal.
01:20The great woman scientist was to die in Savoy, France on July 4th, 1934.
01:26But Madame Curie's contribution to humanity would keep her name and memory alive in the annals of mankind forever.
01:33The great woman, Howard and Beech-Peper.
01:33The great woman in the island is a professional stranger.
01:37The great woman always wanted to see her name again.
01:37The great woman in the night of hell is another day, and he claims her name and age-featorio is
01:38a little bit older.
01:38The great woman who says her name is a grandma and she uses her name and she uses her name
01:38and she's a mother to the woman and she doesn't have to, but she looks like her name and she's
01:39a star.
01:39To be able to meet her name and she uses her name and she's a Adele.
01:40The great woman in the family, she likes to bring to you with the girls' name and she is a
01:40brown girl.
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