The mother of radium puts dynamite to shame. Like the discovery radioactivity, my music number is simultaneously epic and disturbing. Marie Curie is but one of many scientists who were killed by their own inventions.
Madame Curies’s death, at the age of 67, was due to leukemia, a disease which is now known to be caused by exposure to the penetrating radiation. When physicists learned better how to be careful with radiation, photographic films were placed between the sheets of Madame Curie’s laboratory books. The developed films have shown numerous fingerprints caused by radioactive deposits on the sheets touched by Madame Curie’s fingers.
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