Radium Is Not To Enrich Any One.

The Sensitive Plate, The Gas Which Is Ionised, The Fluorescent Screen, Are In Reality Receivers, Into Another Kind Of Energy, Chemical Energy, Ionic Energy... Luminous Energy.

Now Is The Time To Understand More, So We Fear Less.

We Believe The Substance We Have Extracted From Pitchblende Contains A Metal Not Yet Observed, Related To Bismuth By Its Analytical Properties. If The Existence Of This New Metal Is Confirmed We Propose To Call It Polonium, From The Name Of The Original Country Of One Of Us.

The Various Reasons Which We Have Enumerated Lead Us To Believe That The New Radio-active Substance Contains A New Element Which We Propose To Give The Name Of Radium.

I Am Among Those Who Think That Science Has Great Beauty.