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The Discovery of Radium

Marie Curie’s speech at Vassar College stands as both scientific memoir and pioneering testament. Speaking to aspiring women scholars, she demystified her painstaking isolation of radium while embodying the possibilities of female intellectual achievement in an era of profound scientific revolution.

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“But we must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity.”
Marie Curie

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• Title: The Discovery of Radium

• Author: Marie Curie

• Type: Speech

• Publisher: Vassar College

• Publication time: May 14, 1921

• Publication place: New York, United States

• Link: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/61622/61622-h/61622-h.htm

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