Marie Curie with Warren G. Harding in Washington, DC, in 1921, and with her daughters in New York City that same year

Montage US President Warren G. Harding and physicist Marie Curie stand arm-in-arm outside the White House in the middle of a line of women admirers of Curie; ceremony will be held to present Curie with a gram of radium for her ongoing research in Paris / hand holds a presentation case inscribed to Curie / Harding's hands hold the presentation case with a vial in it; this is not the actual radium, but is meant to symbolize it / Harding and Curie lead women down winding staircase outside the White House / montage Curie sits in chair on deck of ship during visit to New York City; her two daughters, Eve and Irene, stand behind her / rear shot photographers take pictures of Curie and woman at rail of ship / from Greatest Headlines of the Century series