A century after her death, Marie Curie's research notes remain too dangerous to touch—a haunting reminder of the price paid for scientific discovery. The post Marie Curie and her husband Pierre spent nearly four years boiling down seven tonnes of pitchblende in a leaky Paris shed with no ventilation to isolate one-tenth of a gram of radium chloride, and the notebooks she kept during those years are still so radioactive they are stored in lead-lined boxes at the Bibliothèque nationale appeared first on Space Daily .
Marie Curie and her husband Pierre spent nearly four years boiling down seven tonnes of pitchblende in a leaky Paris shed with no ventilation to isolate one-tenth of a gram of radium chloride, and the notebooks she kept during those years are still so radioactive they are stored in lead-lined boxes at the Bibliothèque nationale
