This is the tomb of Marie Sklodowska-Curie, located in the Panthéon in Paris. What sets this tomb apart is its unique reinforcement with an inch-thick layer of lead. This measure was taken to shield the public from the lingering radiation that continues to emanate from her remains. Marie Curie, a French-Polish scientist, achieved remarkable feats in her lifetime. She was the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 and later, in 1911, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Notably, she holds the distinction of being the first woman to ever receive a Nobel Prize, the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two distinct scientific fields, and the first to win two Nobel Prizes.
Despite facing adversity, including being barred from higher education due to her gender, Curie persisted in her pursuit of knowledge. She resorted to attending a clandestine institution known as the “Flying University” to further her education. Marie Curie is renowned for her groundbreaking discovery of the radioactive elements radium and polonium, as well as coining the term “radioactivity.” Unbeknownst to her at the time, her close work with radium led to her inadvertent exposure to harmful radiation, ultimately contributing to her death in 1934 from aplastic anemia.
Remarkably, Curie’s body, along with her personal possessions such as cookbooks, clothing, furniture, and lab notes, is expected to remain radioactive for another 1,500 years.
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Another one of those wonderful scientists. She made a glow in the dark watch. Everyone who worked there was either maimed or died. She could have been Fauchi’s role model.
I recall reading that the scientists at Los Alamos(?) had a small sphere of plutonium on display and encouraged visitors to put their hands over it to feel the heat. Stupid is as stupid does.
How could they have known the effects at that time?
Stupidisasstupiddoes
Maybe from what happened to Madame Curie?
The stupidity continues with the use of depleted uranium ammunition in Iraq and elsewhere. Lots of babies born there with terrible birth defects. A Dutch NATO group sent to take over a site that had been occupied by US troops refused to do so because they had a radiation detector and the area was too hot. Our military geniuses used to set off A-bombs out West and the radiation drifted across the country. I knew a man who in his words was “one of those unlucky bastards” who was marched across a test site. He died of cancer after many visits to the VA hospital.
Happy Birthday, John. Hope it has been a good one.
It has. Went on a monster hike, 23 miles, 10 hours, then fishing, caught two red salmon. Today was with wife on a local hike and saw a mother and baby moose. This is over the last several days of perfect weather, about 70.
I would probably not be punching buttons on my cellphone right now if it weren’t for this lady.
God Bless You Madame.
Hmm, so we are judging people based on hindsight rather then in the context of their times? She died at 66. Probably better than the average lifespan of a woman born in 1867. Sometimes I marvel at the comments
I will guarantee that everyone who worked with her died eventually
My mom worked for a while in the U.S. Time plant in Middlebury, CT, known locally as “the clock shop”. There were women who painted radium on the dials of glow-in-the-dark watches. They were warned not to put the tiny brushes in their mouths to put a point on the brush tips, but many did. Their mouths began to glow in the dark and they died horribly. Fortunately for Mom she worked in a different department.
Fossy jaw.
I heard that story when I worked at an xray source manufacturer.
I machined the capsules that were at the ends of a cable that contained the iridium pellets used to xray welds and concrete.
I also made hypodermic rods that contained cesium137 canes that were made and spaced by me according to the doctors prescription.
Ther were used for brachytherapy, which is the burning of cancer cells out of the lady parts.
But that was way back when I was 19.
My pop was a radiologist when they also treated cancer.
Trained at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Wash U.
Radiologists no longer do that.
“Many believe that she might not have discovered Radium if she hadn’t used her husband’s discovery of the piezoelectric effect to study radioactivity electrically. There has been much debate about how her husband’s research led her to what she did. Yet, it seems as if they built off each other’s research and energy and worked together on their studies and that proved fruitful.”
Of course, he was killed in an auto accident, so we’ll probably never know
I am a scientist by education. I have always held that the span of about 50 years while people like her were alive, that little has really changed since then with respect to base technology as most modern inventions pretty much were from that era. Improved upon yes, but still they are timeless at this point. Even the transistor was invented right after WWII.
She was one “hot ” piece of ass.
I get the joke, but it kinda came off like that time Geordi La Forge was creeping on Professor Brahms.
Took some brain power for that one, right genius?
Stop being so radioactive means she’ll never decompose. What bacteria can survive being on her body?
Read about the SL-1 accident in 1961 in Idaho. Steam explosion caused by reactor excursion blew the control rods out of the vessel lid through one tech’s body and pinning him to the roof of the building. Three people in all died.
His body was stuck in the roof for several days while they figured out how to remove it. When they finally got him out his body was quite radioactive but not decomposed due to the radioactivity killing off all bacteria. Scary stuff.
A better “radioactive” song by FAR superior musicians-
Can’t wait to see what new kind of shielding will be used once toxic people like our current crop of politicians croak.
Worms
This good lady is going to be radioactive for another 1500 years, but Hiroshima and Nagasaki are thriving…
Yep, check out the beautiful ground zero parks in the thriving cities, no 3 eyed frogs to be found. Everything you’ve been taught is bullshit!
Peace, L.
Hhmmm,wonder how much of her work was actually done by her husband Pierre?