![]() The American Chemical Society, the New York Mineralogical Club, cancer research facilities and the Bureau of Mines held events in her honor. She would later appear at the American Museum of Natural History, where an exhibit commemorated her discovery of radium. Andrew Carnegie before receptions at the Waldorf Astoria and Carnegie Hall. She attended a luncheon on her first day at the house of Mrs. But the Polish-born scientist, almost pathologically shy and accustomed to spending most of her time in her Paris laboratory, was stunned by the fanfare that greeted her. When Marie Curie came to the United States for the first time, in May 1921, she had already discovered the elements radium and polonium, coined the term “radio-active” and won the Nobel Prize-twice. ![]()
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