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Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win a Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields. (Credit: Getty Images)
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from: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230907-the-fear-of-a-nuclear-fire-that-would-consume-earth
Marie Curie's revelations about radioactivity in the early 1900s helped change the course of human history.
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Scientific instruments in the 1900's are as inscrutable as the scientific instruments now. Definitely not your basic chemistry set.
I believe her notes are still radioactive to this day and one must wear protection to handle them
I do hear she had quite the radiant personality.
Plus basically everywhere in that lab she laid hands.
So are her remains I believe. Her tomb in the Pantheon is lined with lead.