And in 1934 Marie Curie died with a ‘radioactive body’ and was buried ... Objects like her laboratory notebooks are stored in lead-lined boxes at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris.

Marie Curie kept vials of materials in her pockets and desk drawers. Astonishingly, more than a century later, her notebooks are still too radioactive to be handled without protective clothing.

Marie Curie ... laboratory notes are still radioactive, the Christian Science Monitor reports. Regarded as national and scientific treasures, Curie's laboratory notebooks are stored in ...

Laboratory notebooks, furniture ... While lead may have shielded her body, Marie Curie’s body remained radioactive even after ...

Marie Curie was a physicist and chemist who ... More than 100 years after their discoveries, the couple’s notebooks are still so radioactive they have to be kept in lead-lined boxes and handled ...

succumbing to illnesses caused by her prolonged exposure to radioactive materials. Even now, Marie Curie’s notebooks are too radioactive to be picked up by hand.

The film, which debuts Friday on Amazon Prime, comes from Lauren Redniss’ 2010 graphic biography, “Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout.” Satrapi, the Iranian-French ...

Author Dava Sobel discusses how she discovered the many forgotten female scientists who were mentored by Marie Curie in early 20th-century Paris ...

The title of the Marie Curie movie "Radioactive" has multiple meanings. Literally, it refers to the fact that radiation she absorbed in her lab killed her. Figuratively, it alludes to the sexism ...

Marie Curie was the first woman to earn a Nobel Prize in 1903 when she won in physics for her research on radioactivity. She won another Nobel in 1911, this time in chemistry, for her discovery of ...