By Marie Curie personal belongings must not be touched even 1500 years of highest radiation Bashny.Net

"Mother of modern physics," and she is so radioactive that is buried in a coffin with the protection of svintsa.Mariya Curie died of aplastic anemia. She got sick of this rare disease associated with infection with radioactive substances, during the experiments, which helped open the polonium and radium.



Curie is the only woman to receive the Nobel Prize in two disciplines: chemistry and physics. Her research also helped the French physicist Henri Becquerel discovered uranium in 1896.

It's been more than a hundred years, and the personal belongings of famous scientists, including her clothes, furniture, books, recipes, laboratory records are still contaminated with radioactive substances. They are considered a national treasure in France and stored in secure boxes of lead in the National Library in Paris.

Visitors to the library before you read the operating diaries and journals Curie must sign a form, stating that they are familiar with danger, and be sure to wear protective gear to avoid infecting radium 226. The half-life it is 1600 years. This means that visitors will have to take precautions even fifteen hundred years.

By the way, the body Curie was also contaminated with radioactive substances. The coffin in which she was buried, very heavy. It is protected inside lead layer thickness of 2 5 cm. Marie Curie and her husband, Pierre Curie, is buried in Paris Pantheon.

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