Could Modern Doctors Have Saved Marie Curie? Her Own Notebooks Are Still Radioactive
Two Nobel Prizes, a pocketful of radium and a laboratory where the health and safety officer would have fainted on arrival PASSY, FRANCE, 4 July 1934 – Marie Curie died in a sanatorium in the Haute-Savoie at the age of sixty-six, of a blood disease that her doctors could not explain and that history has since pinned, almost certainly, on a lifetime of exposure to radiation. She was the first…