Marie Curie's notebooks are radioactive and must be stored in a lead-lined box in the Bibliothèque Nationale. Curie’s corpse is also radioactive. Her coffin is lined in an inch of lead. Both will remain radioactive for 1,500+ years.

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@DrLindseyFitzharris Future archeologists: what taboos did this woman break to be buried so differently from her comortants?