5/29/2023 0 Comments Ève curie books![]() Irene and Eve were born seven years apart in France, right around the turn of the century. Her two daughters on the other hand are a story waiting to be told. But Marie’s history is relatively well known, still taught in the history books, the subject of several films. Her journals and papers are still so radioactive today that they are stored in lead lined boxes and cannot be handled without protection. She died at age 66 due to complications of decades of exposure to radiation. Curie is still the only person to receive two Nobel Prizes in different sciences, work that did not come without a steep price. ![]() Her name is synonymous with radioactivity, not just because she invented the term “radioactivity” but because the unit of measure for it is her last name. Marie Curie is a household name in the right sorts of households, the woman who walked into the fraternity of nineteenth century physics and carved out a legend for herself. ![]()
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