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* START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 69617 * PIERRE CURIE IN 1906. Hellog Dujardin Dujardin Imp. Ch. Wütmann PIERRE CURIE BY MARIE CURIE Translated by CHARLOTTE AND VERNON KELLOGG WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MRS. WILLIAM BROWN MELONEY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOTES BY MARIE CURIE ILLUSTRATED NEW YORK THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1923 Copyright, 1923, By MARIE CURIE. "It is possible to conceive that in criminal hands radium might prove very dangerous, and the question therefore arises whether it be to the advantage o	https://www.gutenberg.org/files/69617/69617-h/69617-h.htm	The Project Gutenberg eBook of Pierre Curie, by Marie Curie.	gutenberg.org	0.231	0.864	[]	512	Marie Curie	personality	2026-03-08T01:59:27.315190	[ -0.09145160764455795, 0.04869290441274643, -0.06175380200147629, -0.02325638011097908, 0.05390256270766258, 0.05152617022395134, 0.011909802444279194, 0.11196643114089966, -0.011879565194249153, 0.0868568941950798, -0.009058330208063126, 0.06016263738274574, 0.0600973479449749, -0.02029955...
therefore arises whether it be to the advantage of humanity to know the secrets of nature, whether we he sufficiently mature to profit by them, or whether that knowledge may not prove harmful. Take, for instance, the discoveries of Nobel—powerful explosives have made it possible for men to achieve admirable things, but they are also a terrible means of destruction in the hands of those great criminals who draw nations into war.	https://www.gutenberg.org/files/69617/69617-h/69617-h.htm	The Project Gutenberg eBook of Pierre Curie, by Marie Curie.	gutenberg.org	0.313	0.694	["war_conflict", "education", "philosophy"]	431	Marie Curie	personality	2026-03-08T01:59:27.315348	[ 0.016996895894408226, 0.09402784705162048, -0.008659600280225277, 0.06097286194562912, 0.020320119336247444, 0.027389544993638992, 0.04807661101222038, -0.01946103945374489, -0.0003421382571104914, 0.11456780135631561, -0.05734405666589737, 0.0436762310564518, -0.012375333346426487, 0.0370...
those great criminals who draw nations into war. I am among those who believe with Nobel that humanity will obtain more good than evil from future discoveries." PIERRE CURIE, Nobel Conference, 1903. TRANSLATORS' NOTE The translators wish to acknowledge their obligations to Dr. R. B. Moore, Chief Chemist, U. S. Bureau of Mines, and an American authority on radium, who kindly read the whole translation in manuscript in order to assure its accuracy as to the technical details referred to by Madame Curie in he	https://www.gutenberg.org/files/69617/69617-h/69617-h.htm	The Project Gutenberg eBook of Pierre Curie, by Marie Curie.	gutenberg.org	0.68	0.72	["war_conflict", "education"]	511	Marie Curie	personality	2026-03-08T01:59:27.315424	[ -0.014510385692119598, 0.017233088612556458, -0.050801511853933334, -0.037329208105802536, 0.06641280651092529, 0.029575733467936516, 0.10280799865722656, 0.07616200298070908, -0.04251207411289215, 0.01644863560795784, -0.057902783155441284, -0.013056447729468346, 0.02414034493267536, -0.0...
echnical details referred to by Madame Curie in her account of the work of her husband and herself on radium. PREFACE It is not without hesitation that I have undertaken to write the biography of Pierre Curie. I should have preferred confiding this task to some relative or some friend of his infancy who had followed his whole life intimately and possessed as full a knowledge of his earliest years as of those after his marriage.	https://www.gutenberg.org/files/69617/69617-h/69617-h.htm	The Project Gutenberg eBook of Pierre Curie, by Marie Curie.	gutenberg.org	0.843	0.852	["family", "education"]	431	Marie Curie	personality	2026-03-08T01:59:27.315515	[ -0.02082924358546734, 0.05391964316368103, 0.005706509575247765, -0.00835181400179863, -0.029000723734498024, 0.03326744958758354, -0.01627887412905693, 0.05879667401313782, -0.07320448756217957, 0.01949208788573742, -0.08835391700267792, -0.05855793505907059, 0.018417367711663246, -0.0889...
n and how I persuaded Madame Curie to write this book. It is with much hesitancy that I venture to write a preface to this book. She once chided me, in her gentle way, for an article in which I had stated facts with some feeling—although the facts praised her. "In science," she said, "we should be interested in things, not persons." Madame Curie is the most modest of women. It is only after long persuasion that she has consented to record the autobiographical notes contained in this book.	https://www.gutenberg.org/files/69617/69617-h/69617-h.htm	The Project Gutenberg eBook of Pierre Curie, by Marie Curie.	gutenberg.org	0.869	0.878	["rhetoric"]	493	Marie Curie	personality	2026-03-08T01:59:27.315592	[ -0.019683590158820152, 0.010935412719845772, 0.019938137382268906, 0.04176092892885208, -0.05291030928492546, 0.07008074223995209, 0.04878989979624748, 0.004646965302526951, -0.06885070353746414, 0.001334241940639913, -0.08141544461250305, -0.03176076337695122, 0.026923680678009987, -0.098...
he autobiographical notes contained in this book. Still, so much has been left unsaid, uninterpreted, that I feel an obligation to say a word toward a fuller understanding of this great and noble character. In 1915 I wrote in my editor's suggestion book: "Greatest woman's story in the world—Marie Curie, discoverer of radium." For the next four years scarcely any writer of prominence went abroad without a commission from me to bring back the story of Madame Curie.	https://www.gutenberg.org/files/69617/69617-h/69617-h.htm	The Project Gutenberg eBook of Pierre Curie, by Marie Curie.	gutenberg.org	0.867	0.856	["war_conflict"]	467	Marie Curie	personality	2026-03-08T01:59:27.315658	[ -0.01260323729366064, -0.0030286023393273354, -0.00418098783120513, 0.05503052845597267, -0.005038600414991379, 0.040681060403585434, -0.024090982973575592, 0.061219893395900726, -0.04941534623503685, 0.026539191603660583, -0.07249676436185837, 0.03408452495932579, 0.05435258895158768, -0....
the front, relieving suffering and saving lives. In May, 1919, another mission took me to Paris and I resolved to see Madame Curie myself. My friend, Stéphane Lauzanne, Editor-in-Chief of Le Matin , said: "Give it up. Become interested in something else; she will see no one. She does nothing but work." I began to ask questions. "She is very simple and exceedingly retiring," said Lauzanne. "Few things in life are more distasteful to her than publicity. Her mind is as exact and logical as science itself.	https://www.gutenberg.org/files/69617/69617-h/69617-h.htm	The Project Gutenberg eBook of Pierre Curie, by Marie Curie.	gutenberg.org	0.871	0.724	[]	507	Marie Curie	personality	2026-03-08T01:59:27.315682	[ 0.025342417880892754, 0.03736560046672821, 0.009559971280395985, 0.007284078747034073, 0.06949383020401001, 0.032193005084991455, -0.034697722643613815, 0.03891767933964729, -0.023587411269545555, -0.0005569883505813777, -0.08038786053657532, 0.00018600311886984855, 0.014032701030373573, -...
black, with pale hands and high arched forehead. The magnificent forehead won notice first. It was not merely a woman who stood before us, but a brain—a living thought. Her appearance was enthusiastically applauded for five minutes. When the applause died down, Madame Curie bent forward with slightly trembling lips. We wondered what she was about to say. It was important. It was history, whatever she said. "In the foreground sat a stenographer, ready to record her words.	https://www.gutenberg.org/files/69617/69617-h/69617-h.htm	The Project Gutenberg eBook of Pierre Curie, by Marie Curie.	gutenberg.org	0.378	0.706	["war_conflict"]	475	Marie Curie	personality	2026-03-08T01:59:27.315705	[ -0.007032401394098997, 0.07611751556396484, 0.008867988362908363, -0.010862615890800953, -0.007678288500756025, 0.09343437105417252, 0.0452767089009285, -0.007909370586276054, -0.0065875183790922165, -0.05498852953314781, -0.06498558074235916, -0.07291077077388763, -0.016810370609164238, -...
nd sat a stenographer, ready to record her words. Would she speak of her husband? Would she thank the Minister and the public? No, she began quite simply as follows: "'When we consider the progress made by the theories of radio-activity since the beginning of the Nineteenth Century—' The important thing to this great woman is work. Time should not be wasted in idle words. And so, dispensing with all superficial formality, with no betrayal of the tremendous emotion which all but overcame her—except by the ex	https://www.gutenberg.org/files/69617/69617-h/69617-h.htm	The Project Gutenberg eBook of Pierre Curie, by Marie Curie.	gutenberg.org	0.355	0.874	["family", "philosophy"]	512	Marie Curie	personality	2026-03-08T01:59:27.315734	[ -0.03006902150809765, 0.03280947729945183, 0.06315291672945023, -0.0030855501536279917, -0.03209429979324341, 0.016758782789111137, 0.051757875829935074, -0.03151090443134308, -0.05296778306365013, -0.04860563576221466, -0.032122962176799774, 0.008967427536845207, -0.00781546626240015, -0....
motion which all but overcame her—except by the extreme pallor of her face and the trembling of her lips—she continued her lecture in clear, well-modulated tones. "It was typical of this great soul that she should carry on their work courageously and without faltering. "You will see," concluded Lauzanne, "it is useless to try to interrupt her work for interviews." Later I met one of Madame Curie's fellow scientists who sympathized with my desire, but who agreed with Lauzanne that an interview was impossible	https://www.gutenberg.org/files/69617/69617-h/69617-h.htm	The Project Gutenberg eBook of Pierre Curie, by Marie Curie.	gutenberg.org	0.701	0.868	["interview", "faith_spirituality", "philosophy"]	512	Marie Curie	personality	2026-03-08T01:59:27.315771	[ -0.05113714933395386, 0.024771234020590782, 0.06990960240364075, 0.020638205111026764, -0.0037672247271984816, 0.011143987067043781, 0.021275542676448822, 0.00023079809034243226, -0.022258561104536057, -0.031897589564323425, -0.08162767440080643, -0.04853658378124237, -0.021523039788007736, ...
eed with Lauzanne that an interview was impossible. Finally, however, he promised to carry a letter to Madame Curie. I wrote ten letters and destroyed them. In one I said: "My father, who was a medical man, wrote: 'It is impossible to exaggerate the unimportance of people.' But you have been important to me for twenty years, and I want to see you a few minutes." The answer came within an hour. I was to go to the laboratory the next morning. I had been in Mr.	https://www.gutenberg.org/files/69617/69617-h/69617-h.htm	The Project Gutenberg eBook of Pierre Curie, by Marie Curie.	gutenberg.org	0.846	0.874	["interview", "economy", "family"]	462	Marie Curie	personality	2026-03-08T01:59:27.315808	[ -0.09338139742612839, 0.12481150031089783, 0.07583338767290115, -0.012800182215869427, 0.011070910841226578, -0.05313434079289436, 0.008140835911035538, 0.00407547177746892, -0.016787709668278694, -0.07834234833717346, -0.05492452159523964, -0.04378659650683403, -0.016587093472480774, -0.1...
he laboratory the next morning. I had been in Mr. Edison's laboratory a few weeks before sailing from home. Edison is rich in the material things—as he should be. Every kind of equipment is at his command. He is a power in the financial as well as the scientific world. In my childhood I had lived near Alexander Graham Bell; had admired his great house and his fine horses. A short time before, I had been in Pittsburgh, where the sky is plumed by the tall smoke stacks of the greatest radium reduction plants i	https://www.gutenberg.org/files/69617/69617-h/69617-h.htm	The Project Gutenberg eBook of Pierre Curie, by Marie Curie.	gutenberg.org	0.851	0.89	["economy", "family"]	512	Marie Curie	personality	2026-03-08T01:59:27.315840	[ -0.020251912996172905, 0.08401636779308319, 0.08659705519676208, 0.06109049916267395, -0.022303922101855278, -0.051067035645246506, 0.02494046837091446, 0.00711215240880847, -0.10831952840089798, -0.016855433583259583, 0.003272994887083769, 0.024282054975628853, 0.00014704899513162673, -0....
e stacks of the greatest radium reduction plants in the world. I remembered that millions of dollars had been spent on radium watches and radium gun sights. Several millions of dollars' worth of radium was even then stored in various parts of the United States. I had been prepared to meet a woman of the world, enriched by her own efforts and established in one of the white palaces of the Champs d'Elysées or some other beautiful boulevard of Paris.	https://www.gutenberg.org/files/69617/69617-h/69617-h.htm	The Project Gutenberg eBook of Pierre Curie, by Marie Curie.	gutenberg.org	0.645	0.86	[]	451	Marie Curie	personality	2026-03-08T01:59:27.315865	[ 0.010334807448089123, 0.1146320328116417, 0.002694949507713318, 0.07099268585443497, 0.07994285970926285, -0.04448201507329941, 0.04097859933972359, 0.07338713109493256, -0.03938257321715355, 0.05750849097967148, -0.006902176886796951, -0.02423601597547531, 0.02902965061366558, -0.04058435...
y ease, Madame Curie began to talk about America. She had for many years wanted to visit my country, but she could not be separated from her children. "America," she said, "has about fifty grammes of radium. Four of these are in Baltimore, six in Denver, seven in New York." She went on naming the location of every grain. "And in France?" I asked. "My laboratory," she replied simply, "has hardly more than a gramme." " You have only a gramme?" I exclaimed. That meant less than one-twenty-ninth of an ounce.	https://www.gutenberg.org/files/69617/69617-h/69617-h.htm	The Project Gutenberg eBook of Pierre Curie, by Marie Curie.	gutenberg.org	0.831	0.732	["economy", "family"]	509	Marie Curie	personality	2026-03-08T01:59:27.315897	[ 0.011232737451791763, -0.010583830066025257, 0.025609174743294716, 0.008493009023368359, -0.023195911198854446, -0.00547474529594183, 0.023415308445692062, 0.07357987016439438, -0.061431702226400375, -0.03305888548493385, -0.014134982600808144, -0.09216878563165665, -0.0020846426486968994, ...
tion, perhaps, but as it happened, a fateful one. "You ought to have everything in the world you need to go on with your work," I said. "Some one must undertake this." "Who will?" she asked rather hopelessly. "The women of America," I promised—and then I rose to go. That week I learned that the market price of a gramme of radium was one hundred thousand dollars. I also learned that Madame Curie's laboratory, although practically a new building, was without sufficient equipment; that the radium held there wa	https://www.gutenberg.org/files/69617/69617-h/69617-h.htm	The Project Gutenberg eBook of Pierre Curie, by Marie Curie.	gutenberg.org	0.851	0.878	["economy"]	512	Marie Curie	personality	2026-03-08T01:59:27.315921	[ -0.08413580805063248, 0.029525363817811012, -0.03380011394619942, 0.03479832783341408, 0.007803603541105986, -0.019960815086960793, 0.017494123429059982, 0.04250026494264603, -0.07600508630275726, 0.04001326113939285, -0.0422886461019516, -0.04272083193063736, 0.030012056231498718, -0.0558...
ufficient equipment; that the radium held there was used at that time only for extracting emanations for hospital use in cancer treatment. I saw Madame Curie at the Institute again and then in her own home—a small apartment in the Ile St. Louis, where she lived with her two daughters. It was a happy, busy little family. They had no protest against life except to regret that lack of equipment interfered with the important research work Madame Curie and her daughter, Irene, should have been doing.	https://www.gutenberg.org/files/69617/69617-h/69617-h.htm	The Project Gutenberg eBook of Pierre Curie, by Marie Curie.	gutenberg.org	0.44	0.872	["family"]	500	Marie Curie	personality	2026-03-08T01:59:27.315943	[ -0.03964075446128845, 0.09509257227182388, -0.02462603896856308, -0.0046137175522744656, 0.012758497148752213, 0.008188867010176182, -0.0203646719455719, 0.059513743966817856, -0.08265553414821625, 0.053588688373565674, 0.007918898947536945, 0.036694761365652084, 0.07156351208686829, -0.08...
ears since that scene at the University of Paris. These years had been spent in her laboratory; she had made no public appearance. It was in March, 1921, that Monsieur Lauzanne heard her voice again. "I lifted the telephone receiver," he relates, "and heard these words: 'Madame Curie wishes to speak to you.' What extraordinary event—what tragedy, perhaps, might this not mean? And suddenly, over the wire came the sound of the voice which I had heard only once before, but which had stayed in my memory—the sam	https://www.gutenberg.org/files/69617/69617-h/69617-h.htm	The Project Gutenberg eBook of Pierre Curie, by Marie Curie.	gutenberg.org	0.831	0.876	["economy", "education"]	512	Marie Curie	personality	2026-03-08T01:59:27.315979	[ -0.08828980475664139, 0.0028739359695464373, 0.029958397150039673, -0.04534600302577019, -0.044390395283699036, 0.031551193445920944, 0.03635451942682266, 0.023185130208730698, 0.008584938943386078, -0.055434875190258026, -0.0048671988770365715, 0.05114203318953514, 0.011558863334357738, -...
before, but which had stayed in my memory—the same voice which had once pronounced the words, 'When we consider the progress made by the theories of radio-activity since the beginning of the Nineteenth Century——' "'I wanted to tell you that I am going to America,' she said. 'It was very hard for me to decide to go, because America is so far and so big. If some one did not come for me, I should probably never have made the trip. I should have been too frightened. But to this fear is added a great joy.	https://www.gutenberg.org/files/69617/69617-h/69617-h.htm	The Project Gutenberg eBook of Pierre Curie, by Marie Curie.	gutenberg.org	0.79	0.892	["decision_making"]	505	Marie Curie	personality	2026-03-08T01:59:27.316012	[ 0.06796088814735413, -0.04303742200136185, -0.03466086834669113, -0.0058860015124082565, 0.019817404448986053, 0.042753033339977264, 0.06446494907140732, -0.05952305719256401, -0.013069720938801765, -0.03969215974211693, -0.02255484089255333, 0.0565531887114048, 0.08165793120861053, -0.013...
rightened. But to this fear is added a great joy. I have devoted my life to the science of radio-activity and I know all we owe to America in the field of science. I am told you are among those who strongly favor this distant trip, so I wanted to tell you I have decided to go, but please don't let any one know about it.' "This great woman—the greatest woman in France—was speaking haltingly, tremblingly, almost like a little girl.	https://www.gutenberg.org/files/69617/69617-h/69617-h.htm	The Project Gutenberg eBook of Pierre Curie, by Marie Curie.	gutenberg.org	0.803	0.862	["communication", "decision_making"]	433	Marie Curie	personality	2026-03-08T01:59:27.316046	[ 0.09131582081317902, 0.03669985756278038, 0.04352860525250435, 0.05280546098947525, 0.07795879244804382, 0.018396545201539993, 0.08185569196939468, -0.020315105095505714, -0.05953356623649597, -0.055796489119529724, -0.024208230897784233, -0.02174278348684311, 0.04967978969216347, -0.07279...
ris, she came forth with the great gift of radium to mankind. Scientists will go on adding to the bibliography of the marvelous element. But of Marie Curie herself, the woman, it is unlikely that the world will ever read more than the brief notes which compose this small book. It is her conviction, her philosophy, that "In science we should be interested in things, not persons." CHAPTER I THE CURIE FAMILY. INFANCY AND FIRST STUDIES OF PIERRE CURIE Pierre Curie's parents, who were educated and intelligent, f	https://www.gutenberg.org/files/69617/69617-h/69617-h.htm	The Project Gutenberg eBook of Pierre Curie, by Marie Curie.	gutenberg.org	0.719	0.876	["family", "philosophy"]	512	Marie Curie	personality	2026-03-08T01:59:27.316077	[ -0.049405526369810104, 0.029038680717349052, 0.0344545803964138, 0.013823549263179302, 0.043413884937763214, 0.01142569724470377, 0.03569083660840988, 0.060913458466529846, -0.038237519562244415, 0.043927572667598724, -0.04951203241944313, -0.02711975947022438, 0.0446709543466568, -0.12790...
ie's parents, who were educated and intelligent, formed a part of the petite bourgeoisie of small means. They did not frequent fashionable society, but confined themselves entirely to the companionship of their relatives and a few intimate friends. Eugène Curie, Pierre's father, was a physician and the son of a physician. He knew very few kinsmen of his name, and very little about the Curie family, which was of Alsatian (Eugène Curie was born at Mulhouse in 1827) and Protestant origin.	https://www.gutenberg.org/files/69617/69617-h/69617-h.htm	The Project Gutenberg eBook of Pierre Curie, by Marie Curie.	gutenberg.org	0.629	0.862	["family", "philosophy"]	490	Marie Curie	personality	2026-03-08T01:59:27.316112	[ 0.06339481472969055, 0.05446261540055275, 0.03619640693068504, -0.026656484231352806, 0.005083415657281876, -0.019865607842803, 0.03301467373967171, 0.015004273504018784, 0.011378925293684006, 0.02305305190384388, 0.06032666563987732, -0.05065397173166275, 0.02216145396232605, -0.144774720...
d and children by her activity and her good will. If the circumstances in which Jacques and Pierre grew up were modest and not free from cares, nevertheless there reigned in the family an atmosphere of gentleness and affection. In speaking to me for the first time of his parents, Pierre Curie said that they were "exquisite." They were, in truth, that. The father's spirit was a little authoritative—always awake and active. And he possessed a rare unselfishness.	https://www.gutenberg.org/files/69617/69617-h/69617-h.htm	The Project Gutenberg eBook of Pierre Curie, by Marie Curie.	gutenberg.org	0.376	0.856	["family", "communication", "faith_spirituality", "philosophy"]	464	Marie Curie	personality	2026-03-08T01:59:27.316149	[ -0.018299128860235214, 0.07324715703725815, 0.084922194480896, 0.019432418048381805, -0.0001283860474359244, 0.009386745281517506, 0.0410444512963295, 0.02950918860733509, 0.0302890632301569, -0.002615117933601141, 0.029603388160467148, -0.0020620718132704496, 0.003615480614826083, -0.0725...

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    print(item["text"][:100])

Integration with RAG

This dataset is designed to be integrated with existing embedded corpuses. The embeddings use the sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2 model, compatible with FAISS indexing.