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Marie Curie's research on radioactive elements allowed her to be recognized as "the mother of modern physics." Unfortunately for her, these same substances also had a lasting effect on her body, to the point that she had to be buried in a coffin lined with lead. Who was Mrs. Curie? Mary [...]
What Marie Curie Left Behind
It is a good bet that if most scientists and engineers were honest, they would most like to leave something behind that future generations would remember. While Marie Curie met that standard — she was the first woman to win the Nobel prize because of her work with radioactivity, and a unit of radioactivity (yes, we know — not the SI unit) is a Curie. However, Curie also left something else behind inadvertently: radioactive residue. As the BBC ex…
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