Science and Technology
New discoveries were made in science. On February 27, 1912, in New York, Wilhelm Roentgen discovered X-rays when doctors removed a nail from a boy's lungs. On November 8, 1911, Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize for chemistry, discovering a new source called radium. No woman had been ever elected to the academe before. Madame Curie, in 1914, opened her own institute dedicated to learning about radioactivity. Marie Curie's hard devotion to radioactivity earned her fame and fortune around the world. Soon, her institute earned her success and was finally built in July, 1914. Sadly, a month later it was abandoned - all the students and workers had gone to defend their country in the war, known as The Great War. Ten days after the war had begun, Marie Curie received a request from the French Minister of War to equip operators for radiographic work. The use of X-rays to detect injuries in the body had already started. Marie Curie found ways to equip cars with the X-ray machines to go where the fighting was. By October, Marie, her daughter, with an operator were at work converting a car into an X-ray van. On November 1, radiological car E was made.