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At the outbreak of World War I in August 1914 many hospitals in many countries already had x-ray machines. But these machines, of course, were far removed from the battlefield where many people were facing dire injury and death. As the war dragged on and casualties mounted people realized that many lives could be saved if quick diagnosis by x-ray was possible.

One of these people was Marie Curie[1]. By 1914 Curie was already one of the most famous women in the world. Eight years before she had become the first woman ever to hold a professorship at the Sorbonne, the famous university in Paris. She was the recipient of both the Nobel Prize[2] in Physics and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The first was received in 1903 for work she, her husband Pierre Curie, and Henri Becquerel won for the discovery of radioactivity. The s...