Marie Curie, photographed around 1920.
Her work earned her theNobel Prizein both physics (1903) and chemistry (1911).
This radiation was so strong that her possessions, including her notes remain radioactive today.
Marie Curie, photographed around 1920. (Photo:Wikimedia Commons, PUblic domain)
They will remain so for about 1,500 years.
Curie worked with dangerous elements which emitted radiation.
Curies' papers were moved to theBibliotheque Nationalein Paris.
Even Curie herself, who is buried in thePantheon, rests in a lead coffin.
