More And More, I Feel The Need

When One Studies Strongly Radioactive Substances Special Precautions Must Be Taken If One Wishes To Be Able To Take Delicate Measurements. The Various Objects Used In A Chemical Laboratory And Those Used In A Chemical Laboratory, And Those Which Serve For Experiments In Physics, Become Radioactive In A Short Time And Act Upon Photographic Plates Through Black Paper. Dust, The Air Of The Room, And One's Clothes All Become Radioactive.

We Must Have Perseverance And Above All Confidence In Ourselves.

Be Less Curious About People And More Curious About Ideas.

I Have Frequently Been Questioned, Especially By Women, Of How I Could Reconcile Family Life With A Scientific Career. Well, It Has Not Been Easy.

We Believe The Substance We Have Extracted From Pitchblende Contains A Metal Not Yet Observed, Related To Bismuth By Its Analytical Properties. If The Existence Of This New Metal Is Confirmed We Propose To Call It Polonium, From The Name Of The Original Country Of One Of Us.