After their discovery of the medical propriety of radium: it can help treat cancer by killing the cells, the radium industry blew up and people from all over the world wanted to know the Curie's method to isolate radium. Marie and Pierre were faced with an important decision: do they patent their method or not? Without hesitation, Marie answered that they shouldn't because scientists release the results of their experiments all the time, theirs just happens to be useful to the general population, but they must not take advantage of that: it would be selfish and against the scientific spirit, even if that meant no extra money and no new (decent)
