Marie Curie Invented Mobile X‑Ray Units to Help Save Wounded Soldiers in World War I
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Marie Curie Invented Mobile X‑Ray Units to Help Save Wounded Soldiers in World War I
A hundred years ago, Mobile X‑Ray Units were a brand new innovation, and a godsend for soldiers wounded on the front in WW1. Prior to the advent of this technology, field surgeons racing to save lives operated blindly, often causing even more injury as they groped for bullets and shrapnel whose precise locations remained a mystery. Marie Curie was just setting up shop at Paris’ Radium Institute, a world center for the study of radioactivity, whe…
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