New-York tribune., 1921-02-07
Mime. Culrie and
Daughter Visit
America i'm MAY
Discoverer of Radium to
Spend Some Time i'm u. S.
as Guest of Mrs. Meloney;
First Trip Across Atlantic
Noted Men to Greet Her
DIR. F. C. Woods Heads Com.
1nittee Comprising Many
Scientists and Physicians

Nine. Marie Curie, discoverer NJ
radium and the worlds greatest woman
scientist, will visit the United States
in May and will remain in this country
Tor some time. Announcement of her
visit was made yesterday by DR.. F. C.
wood, of the Croker Memorial Cancer
Research Laboratory, who heads the re-
ception committee appointed to well
come her upon her arrival here. Mmes
Curie will be accompanied by her
eidest daughter, Irene, twenty years
old, who is also a scientist.
Announcement of the visit of Nine.
Curie doubtless will cause much in
terest among American scientists and
nearly fifty leading physicians and
scientists are members of the recen-
ton committee. Nine. Curie will be
the guest of Mrs. William Brown Me-
loney, editor of The Delineator.
Discovery of Radium
Nine. Curie, who is ffty-eight years
old, discovered radium in 1890 after
she had gone to Paris to become the
assistant of Professor Becuuerel, dis
coverer of the Becquerel ray After
recognizing the Becquerel ray as an
efect, Nine. Curie sought the cause
ana subsequently discovered radium
She was awarded the Nobel Prize for
her discovery. but continued in re-
search work with DR.. BecouereI.
Although she discovered radium,
Nine. Curie does not own a single gram
or the metal. She has been appointed
custodian of the French government
supply of radium, which is now being
USED for. research work, and her only
income Is her salary from the Sor-
oonne Institute, where she is a teach
er. Nine. Curie was born in WARSAW.
put has spent the greater part of her
hfe in France. She discovered radium
when she was twenty-five years old
she has never been in America be-
fore. Her express desire is that while
here she be taken to Pittsburgh, where
radium is extracted from ore. and to
the Grand Canyon, where the ore is
found.
The Reception Committee
Associated with DR.. Wood on the re-
ception committee are DIR. Will J. Mavo.
president OF the American Medical As
soclation; DR.. William Duane, of Har-
ward; DR.. Robert Able, of New York,
the first surgeon in America to use
radium; Or; William Taylor, president
of the College of Physicians, Phila-
delphia; Dr. James Ewing, of Cornell:
Professor George B. Pegram, of Co
lumbia; DR.. Charles Powers, of Den
YER; DR.. William H. Welsh, DR.. Howard
Kelly and Or. John Finney, of Johns
Hopkins; cdr. Charles Doolittle Wal
colt, of the Smithsonian Institution;
DR.. Livingstone Farrand. head of the
American Red Gross; DR.. John c. Mer-
riam, of the Carnegie Institute; DR..
Vernon Kellogg, head of the National
Research Council; DR.. John Cummings,
surgeon general Of the United States
Public Health Service, and DIR. C. A. L..
Reed, Of Cincinnati.
The women's committee, which is to
raise funds for the purchase of
quantity of radium to be presented to
Nine. Curie, consists of Mrs. Robert G.
Mead, secretary; Mrs. Edward H.
Harkness, Mrs. William Draper, Mrs.
V. Everit Macy, Mrs. John D. Rookie