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Marie Curie: the woman who opened the nuclear age
The hundred or so eminent scientists and diplomats who had assembled for the ceremony had no trouble recognizing the visitor as she walked into the East Room of the White House on the arm of President Warren G.
Harding. After all, having won two Nobel Prizes, Marie Curie was probably the most famous woman in the world! Now she was about receive a very special gift from America, a small beautifully crafted mahogany box, inside of which was another lead-lined steel box, inside of which was…nothing.
The intended contents were deemed to be too dangerous to be brought to the White House and would be placed in the box just before it was to be shipped to France.
Marie curie radioactivity biography of george washington
The box, draped in red, white and blue ribbons, had been constructed to hold a most precious cargo. Marie Curie’s gift from the American people was to be a gram of the radioactive element radium, valued at a stunning $,! ($ million in today’s funds)
It might seem to have been a