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In 1920, an American journalist named Marie Mattingly \u2018Missy\u2019 Meloney interviewed Marie Curie in Paris. Upon learning that Curie\u2019s laboratory was short of funds and that they had only one gram of radium available for research (which, moreover, belonged to her), Missy was horrified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On her return to the US, she rallied thousands of American women and launched a national fundraising campaign: the Marie Curie Radium Fund. They raised the money and, on 20 May 1921, President Warren G. Harding presented Marie Curie with the key to a mahogany chest containing that priceless gram of radium at the White House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019d like to find out more about this scientist, click on the link below: Marie Curie<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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