The Curie laboratory. In the middle of a competence network. The study of radioactivity is an enterprise at multiple components

After the first world war, the most important research laboratory is placed under the direction of a woman: Marie Curie. She leads a voluntarist policy to weave links with industry, the medical profession, and public authorities. In this network, circulate men, women, radium samples,calibration certificates, money, measuring instruments. (N.C.)