Autograph letter signed M. Curie to: "My dear Dr. Pendleton" June 24, 1921.

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Autograph letter signed M. Curie to: "My dear Dr. Pendleton" June 24, 1921.

Before returning to France from New York, Madame Curie thanks Ellen Pendleton, president of Wellesley College, for the honorary degree and encloses a photograph.

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Wellesley College

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Curie, Marie, 1867-1934

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Marie Curie, née Maria Sklodowska, was born in Warsaw on November 7, 1867, the daughter of a secondary-school teacher. She received a general education in local schools and some scientific training from her father. She became involved in a students’ revolutionary organization and found it prudent to leave Warsaw, then in the part of Poland dominated by Russia, for Cracow, which at that time was under Austrian rule. In 1891, she went to Paris to continue her studies at the Sorbonne where she obta...

Pendleton, Ellen F. (Ellen Fitz), 1864-1936

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