Nearly a century after her death, Marie Curie's notebooks are still radioactive — and will be for another 1,500 years. The pioneering scientist had no way of knowing at the time just how dangerous her research on radioactivity — a word she coined — truly was. She walked around her lab with radioactive elements in her pockets and stored them out in the open, in part because she enjoyed how they “looked like faint, fairy lights.” (To be fair, radioactive products were marketed as health cures for many years before their danger was fully understood.)
For safety reasons, France’s National Library stores Curie’s notebooks in lead-lined boxes. Anyone wishing to view her manuscripts must sign a waiver and wear protective gear. Her clothes, furniture, and even cookbooks are also radioactive.
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