My wartime engineering rested on one rule: wounded soldiers are best served when operated on as soon as possible, so X-ray imaging must travel to the front instead of waiting behind it.
I wrote up my knowledge for others: Radiology in War (1919) on the wartime service, a biography Pierre Curie (1923), and Radioactivity, the book I worked on in my last year.
I shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics and won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry alone, becoming the first person to win or share two Nobel Prizes.
In 1915 I produced hollow needles filled with 'radium emanation', the radioactive gas later identified as radon, to sterilise infected tissue, using radium from my own one-gram supply.
