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Who gave Marie Curie a gram of radium during her visit to the United States?
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Marie Curie
Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only woman to win the award in two different fields (Physics, 1903; Chemistry, 1911).
During her 1921 visit to the United States, President Warren G. Harding presented Marie Curie with a gram of radium, which had been purchased through a collection organized by American women.1