Standard Chemical Company

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Standard Chemical Company

Founded	1911 to 1922
Headquarters	Canonsburg, Pennsylvania , United States
Pennsylvania Historical Marker
Official name	Standard Chemical Company
Type	City
Criteria	Business & Industry, Science & Medicine, Professions & Vocations
Designated	January 01, 2018
Marker Location	Allen Hall, 3941 O'Hara St., at entrance across from Thackeray Ave., Univ. of Pittsburgh

The Standard Chemical Company (SCC) of Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, was the first successful commercial producer of radium. SCC operated the radium refining mill from 1911 to 1922 on a 19-acre (77,000 m2) plot of land. The company supplied radium to the United States Radium Corporation for use in their watch dials.[1]

History

Marie Curie - Standard Chemical Company visit in 1921

The company was established by Joseph M. Flannery (1867-1920)[2] and his brother James J. Flannery (1855-1920).[3] In 1909 their sister became ill with cancer. Joseph, after traveling to Europe and learning that radium could treat cancer, and in an effort to help his sister, he decided that he would refine the radioactive element in the United States.^[citation needed]

When Marie Curie was invited to the United States in 27. May 1921, she was given an honorary degree by the University of Pittsburgh, and one gram of radium, Standard Chemical Company provided it to her.[4][5][6]

See also

United States Radium Corporation

References

1. "BRP Environmental Surveillance Section -- Environmental Monitoring". www.dep.state.pa.us. Archived from the original on 2008-05-28.
2. "Joseph M. Flannery".
3. "James J. Flannery".
4. Lewicki, Ann M. (2002). "Marie Sklodowska Curie in America, 1921". Radiology. 223 (2): 299–303. doi:10.1148/radiol.2232011319. ISSN 0033-8419. PMID 11997527.
5. Jerry Grefenstette (15 June 2009). Canonsburg. Arcadia Publishing. pp. 72–. ISBN 978-1-4396-2218-6.
6. Shelley Emling (21 August 2012). Marie Curie and Her Daughters: The Private Lives of Science's First Family. St. Martin's Press. pp. 63–. ISBN 978-1-137-10261-4.

External links

• Silverman, Alexander (1945). "Radioactivity and the University of Pittsburgh". Journal of Chemical Education. 22 (10): 482. doi:10.1021/ed022p482. ISSN 0021-9584.
• Foley, Hamilton (1921). "The Source of Radium". Bulletin of the Pan American Union. 53: 29.
• Timothy J. Jorgensen (23 February 2016). Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation. Princeton University Press. pp. 126–. ISBN 978-1-4008-8052-2.
• Roger F. Robison (1 December 2014). Mining and Selling Radium and Uranium. Springer. pp. 132–. ISBN 978-3-319-11830-7.
• "TOWN LIVES WITH URANIUM WASTES AND FEARS". The New York Times. 12 September 1982.
• "EEOICPA Covered Facilities: Vitro Manufacturing".
• "How Two Pittsburgh Brothers Launched The First Nuclear Industry". 13 November 2018.
• Roger F. Robison (1 December 2014). Mining and Selling Radium and Uranium. Springer. pp. 143–. ISBN 978-3-319-11830-7.
• Barbara Bridgman Perkins (16 August 2017). Cancer, Radiation Therapy, and the Market. Taylor & Francis. pp. 43–. ISBN 978-1-351-97812-5.
• The Salt Lake Mining Review. 1915. pp. 14–.
• Inactive Uranium Mill Tailings, Canonsburg Site, Engineering Assessment Summary, EA. 1982.
• Joel O. Lubenau, CHP. "A BRIEF HISTORY OF STANDARD CHEMICAL COMPANY" (PDF).
• "(S023) The Radium Chemical Company: 1913–1981". Oncology. Oncology Vol 30 No 4_Suppl_1. 30 (4_Suppl_1). 15 April 2016.
• Rentetzi, Maria (2008). "The U.S. Radium Industry: Industrial In-house Research and the Commercialization of Science". Minerva. 46 (4): 437–462. doi:10.1007/s11024-008-9111-1. ISSN 0026-4695. S2CID 144959250.
• Silverman, Alexander (1950). "Pittsburgh's contribution to radium recovery". Journal of Chemical Education. 27 (6): 303. doi:10.1021/ed027p303. ISSN 0021-9584.
• Robison, Roger (2000). "American radium engenders telecurie therapy during World War I". Medical Physics. 27 (6): 1212–1216. doi:10.1118/1.598998. ISSN 0094-2405. PMID 10902549.
• Parsons, Charles L. (2002). "Our Radium Resources". Journal of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry. 5 (11): 943–946. doi:10.1021/ie50059a021. ISSN 0095-9014.
• Edward R. Landa (1982). "The First Nuclear Industry". Scientific American. 247 (5): 180–193. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1182-180. JSTOR 24966733.
• Viol, C. H. (1919-03-07). "Radium Production". Science. 49 (1262). American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS): 227–228. doi:10.1126/science.49.1262.227. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 17809659.
• "Radium journal". Pittsburgh [Radium Chemical Co., etc.] 1913.
• "Vanadium".
• "How Two Pittsburgh Brothers Launched The First Nuclear Industry". 13 November 2018.
• "Flannery brothers made impact on Chartiers Valley region".