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*{{cite book|author=Timothy J. Jorgensen|title=Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4C3FCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA126|date=23 February 2016|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-1-4008-8052-2|pages=126–}} |
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*{{cite book|author=Roger F. Robison|title=Mining and Selling Radium and Uranium|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yNClBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA132|date=1 December 2014|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-3-319-11830-7|pages=132–}} |
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*{{cite web| title =TOWN LIVES WITH URANIUM WASTES AND FEARS | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1982/09/12/us/town-lives-with-uranium-wastes-and-fears.html }} |
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*{{cite web| title = How Two Pittsburgh Brothers Launched The First Nuclear Industry |
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*{{cite book|author=Roger F. Robison|title=Mining and Selling Radium and Uranium|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yNClBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA143|date=1 December 2014|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-3-319-11830-7|pages=143–}} |
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*{{cite book|author=Barbara Bridgman Perkins|title=Cancer, Radiation Therapy, and the Market|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xgoqDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT43|date=16 August 2017|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-351-97812-5|pages=43–}} |
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*{{cite book|title=The Salt Lake Mining Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4-0-AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA14|year=1915|pages=14–}} |
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*{{cite book|title=Inactive Uranium Mill Tailings, Canonsburg Site, Engineering Assessment Summary, EA.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SwkxAQAAMAAJ|year=1982}} |
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*{{cite web| title =A BRIEF HISTORY OF STANDARD CHEMICAL COMPANY| url =https://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/Miscellaneous/photoalbum/sscinfo.pdf |
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*{{cite web| title =(S023) The Radium Chemical Company: 1913–1981 | url =http://www.cancernetwork.com/ars-2016/s023-radium-chemical-company-19131981 }} |
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*{{cite journal|last1=Rentetzi|first1=Maria|title=The U.S. Radium Industry: Industrial In-house Research and the Commercialization of Science|journal=Minerva|volume=46|issue=4|year=2008|pages=437–462|issn=0026-4695|doi=10.1007/s11024-008-9111-1}} |
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Revision as of 19:48, 17 November 2018
40°15′22″N 80°11′58″W / 40.25611°N 80.19944°W
| Founded | 1911 to 1922 |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | , |
| Official name | Standard Chemical Company |
| Type | City |
| Criteria | Business & Industry, Science & Medicine, Professions & Vocations |
| Designated | January 01, 2018 |
| Marker Location | Allen Hall, 3941 O'Hara St., at entrance across from Thackeray Ave., Univ. of Pittsburgh |
The now defunct Standard Chemical Company (SCC) of Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, was the first successful commercial producer of radium. SCC operated the radium refining mill from 1911 to 1922 on a 19-acre (77,000 m2) plot of land. The company supplied radium to the United States Radium Corporation for use in their watch dials.[1]
History
The company was established by Joseph M. Flannery (1867-1920)[2] and his brother James J. Flannery (1855-1920)[3]. In 1909 their sister became ill with cancer. Joseph, after traveling to Europe and learning that radium could treat cancer, and in an effort to help his sister, he decided that he would refine the radioactive element in the United States.[citation needed]
When Marie Curie was invited to the United States in 1921, she was given an honorary degree by the University of Pittsburgh, and one gram of radium, Standard Chemical Company provided it to her.[citation needed]
See also
United States Radium Corporation
References
External links
- Silverman, Alexander (1945). "Radioactivity and the University of Pittsburgh". Journal of Chemical Education. 22 (10): 482. doi:10.1021/ed022p482. ISSN 0021-9584.
- "The Source of Radium".
- Timothy J. Jorgensen (23 February 2016). Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation. Princeton University Press. pp. 126–. ISBN 978-1-4008-8052-2.
- Roger F. Robison (1 December 2014). Mining and Selling Radium and Uranium. Springer. pp. 132–. ISBN 978-3-319-11830-7.
- "How Two Pittsburgh Brothers Launched The First Nuclear Industry".
- Roger F. Robison (1 December 2014). Mining and Selling Radium and Uranium. Springer. pp. 143–. ISBN 978-3-319-11830-7.
- Barbara Bridgman Perkins (16 August 2017). Cancer, Radiation Therapy, and the Market. Taylor & Francis. pp. 43–. ISBN 978-1-351-97812-5.
- The Salt Lake Mining Review. 1915. pp. 14–.
- Inactive Uranium Mill Tailings, Canonsburg Site, Engineering Assessment Summary, EA. 1982.
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- "(S023) The Radium Chemical Company: 1913–1981".
- Rentetzi, Maria (2008). "The U.S. Radium Industry: Industrial In-house Research and the Commercialization of Science". Minerva. 46 (4): 437–462. doi:10.1007/s11024-008-9111-1. ISSN 0026-4695.
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