Standard Chemical Company
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| founded = 1911 to 1922
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| hq_location_city =Canonsburg, Pennsylvania
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| designation1_date = January 01, 2018
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| designation1_free1value = Allen Hall, 3941 O'Hara St., at entrance across from Thackeray Ave., Univ. of Pittsburgh
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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.{{cite web |url=http://www.dep.state.pa.us/brp/Decom_and_Env_Sur/PA_Decommissioning_Site_Summaries.htm#Flannery |title= BRP Environmental Surveillance Section -- Environmental Monitoring|website=www.dep.state.pa.us |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080528181548/http://www.dep.state.pa.us/brp/Decom_and_Env_Sur/PA_Decommissioning_Site_Summaries.htm |archive-date=2008-05-28}}
History
File:Marie Curie - Standard Chemical Company.jpg
The company was established by Joseph M. Flannery (1867-1920){{cite web| title = Joseph M. Flannery| url = http://homepage.eircom.net/~oflannery/bio/bioJMF18671920.htm}} and his brother James J. Flannery (1855-1920).{{cite web| title = James J. Flannery| url = http://homepage.eircom.net/~oflannery/bio/bioJJF18551920.htm}} 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|date=March 2016}}
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.{{cite journal|last1=Lewicki|first1=Ann M.|title=Marie Sklodowska Curie in America, 1921|journal=Radiology|volume=223|issue=2|year=2002|pages=299–303|issn=0033-8419|doi=10.1148/radiol.2232011319|pmid=11997527}}{{cite book|author=Jerry Grefenstette|title=Canonsburg|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H8D0ksQ2RhgC&pg=PT72|date=15 June 2009|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=978-1-4396-2218-6|pages=72–}}{{cite book|author=Shelley Emling|title=Marie Curie and Her Daughters: The Private Lives of Science's First Family|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zMozSq4Kf38C&pg=PA63|date=21 August 2012|publisher=St. Martin's Press|isbn=978-1-137-10261-4|pages=63–}}
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- {{cite web| title = How Two Pittsburgh Brothers Launched The First Nuclear Industry | date =13 November 2018| url =http://www.wesa.fm/post/how-two-pittsburgh-brothers-launched-first-nuclear-industry#stream/0}}
- {{cite book|author=Roger F. Robison|title=Mining and Selling Radium and Uranium|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yNClBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA143|date=1 December 2014|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-3-319-11830-7|pages=143–}}
- {{cite book|author=Barbara Bridgman Perkins|title=Cancer, Radiation Therapy, and the Market|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xgoqDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT43|date=16 August 2017|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-351-97812-5|pages=43–}}
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- {{cite journal|last1=Rentetzi|first1=Maria|title=The U.S. Radium Industry: Industrial In-house Research and the Commercialization of Science|journal=Minerva|volume=46|issue=4|year=2008|pages=437–462|issn=0026-4695|doi=10.1007/s11024-008-9111-1|s2cid=144959250 |doi-access=free}}
- {{cite journal|last1=Silverman|first1=Alexander|title=Pittsburgh's contribution to radium recovery|journal=Journal of Chemical Education|volume=27|issue=6|year=1950|pages=303|issn=0021-9584|doi=10.1021/ed027p303}}
- {{cite journal|last1=Robison|first1=Roger|title=American radium engenders telecurie therapy during World War I|journal=Medical Physics|volume=27|issue=6|year=2000|pages=1212–1216|issn=0094-2405|doi=10.1118/1.598998|pmid=10902549 }}
- {{cite journal|last1=Parsons|first1=Charles L.|title=Our Radium Resources|journal=Journal of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry|volume=5|issue=11|year=2002|pages=943–946|issn=0095-9014|doi=10.1021/ie50059a021}}
- {{cite journal | title= The First Nuclear Industry| author = Edward R. Landa | journal =Scientific American | volume = 247 | issue= 5 |year = 1982 | pages = 180–193| jstor = 24966733| doi = 10.1038/scientificamerican1182-180 }}
- {{cite journal | last=Viol | first=C. H. | journal=Science | publisher=American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | volume=49 | issue=1262 | date=1919-03-07 | issn=0036-8075 | doi=10.1126/science.49.1262.227 | pages=227–228 | title=Radium Production | url=https://zenodo.org/record/1448223 | pmid=17809659}}
- {{cite web|title = Radium journal | year = 1913 | publisher = Pittsburgh [Radium Chemical Co., etc.] | url = https://archive.org/details/n01radium01came/page/n1 }}
- {{cite web| url =https://journals.psu.edu/wph/article/viewFile/58846/58572 | title = Vanadium}}
- {{cite web| url =http://www.wesa.fm/post/how-two-pittsburgh-brothers-launched-first-nuclear-industry#stream/0 | title =How Two Pittsburgh Brothers Launched The First Nuclear Industry| date =13 November 2018}}
- {{cite web| url =https://triblive.com/local/carlynton/12835105-74/oyler-flannery-brothers-made-impact-on-chartiers-valley-regionOyler: | title =Flannery brothers made impact on Chartiers Valley region}}
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