MARTYR TO SCIENCE
HEROIC FRENCHMAN’S DEATH.
(United Press Association—Py Electric Telugi pn—Copyright.)
PARIS, December 22
His life long martyrdom in the cause of science was among the tributes paid to the memory of the great French radiologist, M. George Sharet, who haa died. He kept studying to . the last effects of disease on his own flesh. He contracted the disease by a radium burn during war time. He had since undergone many operations, but hp continued his work of radium research. His sufferings seemed only a further incentive.
After one of his severest oP era Oons President Doumer visited the hospital and pinned the Cross of the Legion of Honour on his breast.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 December 1932, Page 5
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