Marie Curie: Discovery of Radium, 1909

Contents of CSA #2413

Case File of Marie Curie
Committee on Science and the Arts
1909 Cresson Medal

• Report
  • CSA Report: Case No. 2413, Curie's researches resulting in discovery of radium, 1/6/1909
• Correspondence
  • George F. Stradling Letter: To James S. Rogers, Request to be replaced as Curie report writer, 3/18/1908
  • Harry F. Keller Letter: To Alfred Rigling, transmittal of subcommittee draft report with request for comment, 10/28/1908
  • William J. Hammer Letter: To Harry F. Keller, referring to suggestions for minor text alterations to the report, 11/10/1908
  • Harry F. Keller Letter: To Alfred Rigling, Transmittal letter for the recommendation report, ready for signatures of subcommittee members, 11/16/1908
  • Alfred Rigling Letter: To George Stradling, request for approval of the medal inscription, 1/16/1909
• Evidential Information
  • Application
    • Application: Incomplete cover page of application for Curie
  • Publication
    • Le Radium Journal of Physics, description of the steps in extraction of Polonium
  • Lantern Slides
    • Lantern Slide: Treating of a Lupus Patient with Radium. St. Louis Hospital, Paris.
    • Lantern Slide: M. & MME. Curie Finishing the Preparation of Radium.
    • Lantern Slide: Radium as a Test for Diamond.
    • Lantern Slide: M. & MME. Curie Measuring the Intensity of Radium.
    • Lantern Slide: Analysis of Radiation from Radium.
    • Lantern Slide: Hypothetical Picture of a Hydrogen and Radium Atom.
    • Lantern Slide: M. Curie Lecturing on Radium at the Sorbonne, Paris.
• Miscellaneous
  • Notation: To Alfred Rigling from George Stradling, handwritten notation of approval on the 1/16/1909 letter, 1/19/1909