1:02:02
If we can prove the existence
of this new element
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it may enable us to look into
the secret of life itself
1:02:09
deeper than ever before in the
history of the world.
1:02:16
Madame Curie, you must realize
1:02:19
that the board
has given you repetition
1:02:21
every consideration. However...
1:02:23
the university has not an
extensive budget
1:02:25
for the creation of
new laboratories
1:02:27
and for the new equipment
you ask for.
1:02:30
You state that...
1:02:32
you and Dr. Curie had detected
the presence of a new element
1:02:35
an active element.
1:02:37
But unfortunately
you have given us
1:02:39
no convincing proof
of its existence.
1:02:41
We have demonstrated of
its existence experimentally.
1:02:44
We have carried on our
research intensely
1:02:47
except for five weeks
in the autumn.
1:02:50
In September
my daughter was born
1:02:52
and a week later
1:02:54
my husband has the misfortune to
lose his mother.
1:02:57
But the rest of the time, we have
devoted entirely to research.
1:03:00
And yet in this eight
or nine months
1:03:01
you have came no closer
1:03:03
to any proof
as to the existence of ah...
1:03:06
what is the name of it?
1:03:07
Ah, my wife has named it radium.
1:03:10
Oh yes, radium
1:03:12
I should like to ask
Dr. Curie a question.
1:03:14
Yes, Professor Roger
1:03:15
This work.
1:03:16
Will it require
quite a little time
1:03:18
will it not? Yes, of course.
1:03:21
But you are already
teaching at school
1:03:22
of physics and chemistry.
1:03:24
And Madam Curie is teaching at
the normal school at Sebra.
1:03:29
It would be
a formidable undertaking
1:03:30
under the best of circumstances.
1:03:32
Under these conditions
hardly seems promising.
1:03:36
And Madam Curie, in spite of
her acknowledged abilities is
1:03:41
if you would permit me
to say so young
1:03:45
inexperienced, and a woman.
1:03:48
Gentleman. If you please.
1:03:51
This remark seems to me
entirely irrelevant.
1:03:54
It is perfectly true
that Madame Curie is young
1:03:56
that she has not
had the experience
1:03:58
that most of us have had
1:03:59
and as you say she is a woman.