Radium Sample
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content: Alexander Hamilton Phillips (1867-1937) spent his career at Princeton University, first as a student and then as a professor of geology and mineralogy. In 1904 he succeeded in extracting radium from a sample of carnotite from Utah. This was the first radium produced in the United States. He donated this sample of radium to the Smithsonian in 1913.
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content: Ref: Alexander H. Phillips, “Radium in an American Ore,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 43 (1904): 157-160.
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content: “PROF. A. H. PHILLIPS OF PRINCETON DIES,” New York Times (Jan. 21, 1937), p. 23.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Modern Physics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1913.55412.02
label: accession number
content: 55412
label: catalog number
content: 1913.55412.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: radium sample