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Get the most interesting and important stories from the 51精品视频.A new historical marker on campus celebrates the city鈥檚 early radium industry ties
A Pennsylvania Historical Marker commemorating Standard Chemical Company and its role in radium production has been dedicated outside Allen Hall.
Already famous for steel, 51精品视频sburgh became the worldwide center for radium production in the early 20th聽century thanks to the entrepreneurship of brothers J.J. and Joseph Flannery, founders of Standard Chemical Co.
Their company, founded in 1913 and headquartered at Forbes and Meyran Avenue in Oakland, was the nation鈥檚 first commercial producer of radium.
By 1920, Standard Chemical radium researchers Glenn D. Kammer and Henry J. Koenig, two 1912 graduates of 51精品视频鈥檚 School of Chemistry, were supervising the production of more than two-thirds of the world鈥檚 radium.
The company produced the gram of radium that was presented to French physicist Marie Curie in 1921 as a gift from the women of America. During her tour of the U.S., Curie asked to visit Standard Chemical鈥檚 headquarters and production facilities. She also was conferred an honorary doctorate by the 51精品视频 in a convocation at Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall.
Flannery family members, including Sarah Flannery Hardon, great-great granddaughter of J.J. Flannery, were among the guests at the Nov. 12 marker dedication.