Marie Curie Letter
Marie Curie Letter
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- Description
- This letter of recommendation for George F. Taylor was written by Marie Curie in Paris, and dated 1919. George Frederick Taylor (1887-1968) was born in Granite Falls, North Carolina, and died in Detroit, Michigan. During World War I, he served with the Sanitary Squad. In the spring of 1919, while awaiting transport back to the States, Taylor and colleagues spent some time with Marie. Curie and her daughter, in the Radium Laboratory in Paris.
- In the 1920s, while working as a physicist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Taylor devised a resistance thermometer and received U.S. Patent 1,490,990 (April 22, 1924). He later worked for General Electric in Schenectady, N.Y.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- letter
- Measurements
- overall: 10 5/8 in x 8 3/8 in; 26.9875 cm x 21.2725 cm
- ID Number
- PH.314944.01
- accession number
- 212358
- catalog number
- 314944.01
- Credit Line
- George F. Taylor
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- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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