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☞Radioactivity!

☞Today in History -- On today’s date 88 years ago, Wednesday, July 4, 1934 famous Polish-French physicist & chemist Marie Skłodowska Curie, Ph.D (1867-1934), better-known as Madame Curie, met her earthly demise at the age of 66 when she died at Sancellemoz Sanatorium in the town of Passy, France from the effects of aplastic anæmia believed to have been contracted from long-term exposure to ionizing radiation.

☞Requiéscat In Pace, Madame Curie.

☞Dr. Marie Curie, is famous for conducting pioneering research on radioactivity along with her husband, famous French physicist Pierre Curie, Ph.D. (1859-1906). She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person & the only woman to win the Nobel Prize twice, & the only person to win the Nobel Prize in two different scientific fields. She was part of the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. She was also the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris, & in 1995 she became the first woman to be entombed on her own merits in the Panthéon in Paris.

☞The damaging effects of ionizing radiation were not known at the time of her work, which had been carried out without the safety measures later developed. She had carried test tubes containing radioactive isotopes in her pocket, & she stored them in her desk drawer, remarking on the faint light that the substances gave off in the dark. Curie was also exposed to X-rays from unshielded equipment whilst serving as a radiologist in field hospitals during World War I. Although her many decades of exposure to radiation caused chronic illnesses, including near-blindness on account of cataracts, & ultimately her death, she never really acknowledged the health risks of radiation exposure.

☞She was interred at the cemetery in Sceaux, alongside her husband Pierre. Sixty years later, in 1995, in honor of their achievements, the remains of both were transferred to the Panthéon, Paris. Their remains were sealed in a lead lining because of the radioactivity.

☞Because of their levels of radioactive contamination, her papers from the 1890s are considered too dangerous to handle. Even her cookbook is highly radioactive. Her papers are kept in lead-lined boxes, & those who wish to consult them must wear protective clothing. In her last year, she worked on a book, “Radioactivity,” which was published posthumously in 1935.

☞The undated photograph depicts Madame Curie in her Paris laboratory.

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