Marie Curie · Science
Radium healed and radium killed; Curie gave it freely to the world, and the world made of it both a cancer cure and a deadly fad.
You learned that radium was both a medical breakthrough and a lethal hazard. Lay out both sides, and state your own view on a scientist’s responsibility, in your own words.
Leads to Fritz Haber.
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