"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. 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."
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