Marie Mattingly Meloney Collection on Marie Curie, circa 1890-1962 bulk circa 1920-1934

Marie Mattingly Meloney Collection on Marie Curie, circa 1890-1962 bulk circa 1920-1934

Biography

biographie Marie Curie

Marie Mattingly Meloney (1883-1943) was a journalist and magazine editor who led fundraising campaigns to purchase radium for Marie Curie in the 1920s. She was granted an interview with Curie in 1920, after being appointed editor of The Delineator. Upon learning that Curie's laboratory lacked the financial resources to purchase radium—an element Curie herself had discovered in 1898—which Curie needed to continue her experiments, Meloney promised to help. Meloney traveled to Washington, D.C. with Curie in 1921, where President Harding presented Curie with the gram of radium purchased by the "women of America." She accompanied Curie on her second trip to the United States in 1929, during which President Hoover presented Curie with an additional gram of radium. Meloney also wrote an introduction to the English version of Marie Curie's biography of her husband, Pierre Curie.

Justification: Cette source contient le point du vue de Marie Mattingly Meloney, femme qui a eu un interview avec Marie Curie et qui a passé de temps avec Marie Curie.

Marie Mattingly Melony

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Columbia University Libraries Archival Collections

1920

Meloney, Marie Mattingly, 1883-1943

archival material

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