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found time to write a connected account of her investiga- 

 tions under the title of Traite de Radio- Activite a work 

 that reflects as much honor on her sex as did Le Institu- 

 zioni Analitiche of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, which won for 

 her, through that celebrated patron of learning, Benedict 

 XIV, the chair of higher mathematics in the University of 

 Bologna. 



The list of learned societies to which Mme. Curie be- 

 longs is an extended one. To mention only a few, she is an 

 honorary or foreign member of the London Chemical So- 

 ciety, the Koyal Institution of Great Britain, the Royal 

 Swedish Academy, the American Chemical Society, the 

 American Philosophical Society, and the Imperial Academy 

 of Sciences of St. Petersburg. From the universities of 

 Geneva and Edinburgh she has received the honorary de- 

 gree of doctor. 



In 1898 she received the Gegner prize from the French 

 Academy of Sciences for her elaborate researches on the 

 magnetic properties of iron and steel, as also for her inves- 

 tigations relating to radio-activity. The same prize was 

 again awarded to her in 1900, and still again in 1903. With 

 her husband she received in 1901 the La Caze prize of ten 

 thousand francs; and in 1903 she received a part of the 

 Osiris prize of sixty thousand francs. Since her husband 's 

 death in 1906 Mme. Curie has been awarded the coveted 

 Nobel prize in chemistry, which was placed in her hand by 

 the King of Sweden on December 11, 1911 a prize which 

 increased the exchequer of the fair recipient by nearly 

 two hundred thousand francs. Having before been the 

 beneficiary of the Nobel prize for physics, in conjunction 

 with her husband and M. H. Becquerel, Mme. Curie is thus 

 the first person to be twice singled out for the world's 

 highest financial recognition of scientific research. 



It would take too long to enumerate all the medals and 

 prizes and honors which have come to this remarkable 

 woman from foreign countries. But she has doubtless been 



