1920年5月的一个早晨,一位叫麦隆内夫人的美国记者几经周折终于在巴黎实验室里见到了镭的发现者。端庄典雅的居里夫人与异常简陋的实验室,给这位美国记者留下了深刻印象。此时,镭问世已经18年了,它的身价曾高达75万金法郎。美国记者由此推断,仅凭专利技术,应该早已使眼前这位夫人富甲一方了。 On a morning in May 1920, an American journalist named Ms. McLone had finally found the discoverer of radium in the Paris laboratory. The dignified and elegant Madame Curie and the unusually simple laboratory left a deep impression on the American reporter. At this time, radium has been invented for 18 years. Its value was as high as 750,000 gold francs. U.S. reporters inferred from this that the patented technology alone should have made the wife rich.