DISCOVERY OF RADIUM.
GIFT TO. MADAME CURIE.;'
VISIT TO UNITED STATES,
NEW YOK& Oct. 16. Timidly gazing about her in wonder, a little old' lady in black came 1 slowly down the gang plank of tho lie, de France. Bustling crowds made way, as her steps wero carefully guided by Mr. C. G. Dawes) American Ambassador to London, and Mr. Owen D. Young, the author of the reparation plan, her distinguished fellow passengers.
She was Madame Curie, wh<y with her husband, discovered radium,, and she was coming to receive a gift of radium worth £IO,OOO, and to honour a fellow-scientist, Mr. Thomas A. Edison, who will celebrate tho 50th anniversary of his invention of the incandescent light on October 21.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20392, 22 October 1929, Page 11
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120DISCOVERY OF RADIUM. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20392, 22 October 1929, Page 11
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