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Re: [Phys-l] About Radium

From the NOWOTWORY Journal of Oncology, 2009, volume 59, Number 4, pp. 148e-154e
" The roller coaster price of radium" by Joel O. Lubenau1, Richard F. Mould
http://www.nowotwory.edu.pl/files/pdf/2009/plik_148e_Lubenau_04_09.pdf

The US$ price per milligram, from 1899-1958, is given in Table I. After 1958, the table notes that radium had a negative value.

Some neat pictures in the article, including one of Marie Curie, in 1921, visiting Standard Chemical Company managers, who gave her 1 gram of radium they had produced. At the White House President Harding presented Madame Curie with a gold-plated key to the source container, also pictured in the article.

Rick Strickert
Austin, TX


-----Original Message-----
From: phys-l-bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu [mailto:phys-l-bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu] On Behalf Of John Denker
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 8:52 AM
To: Forum for Physics Educators
Subject: Re: [Phys-l] About Radium

On 04/07/2011 02:37 AM, chuck britton wrote:
In December 1903, while preparing to return to New Zealand, book collector
Dr Thomas Morland Hocken (1836-1910) purchased one sixth of a gram of radium
for £10.

No, he didn't.

In 1910 a sixth of a gram of radium was worth more than $10,000.00.
In 1903 it must have been worth even more than that.
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