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M. PIERRE CURIE, co-discoverer with his wife, Mme. Sklodowska Curie, of the element radium, and the investigator of many of its properties, met his death as the result of a street accident in Paris o:i Thursday, April 19. He was crossing the Place Dauphine when he was knocked down by a cab and fell under a heavy van coming from the opposite direction. The wheels passed over his head, and when taken to the police station life was found to be extinct.
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S., F. Prof. Pierre Curie . Nature 73, 612–613 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/073612a0
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