Marie Curie
Polish-born physicist and chemist who pioneered research on radioactivity and discovered polonium and radium. She was the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize and the only person to win in two different sciences.
Marie Curie's notebooks remain in lead-lined boxes 90+ years after her death — still dangerously radioactive. Soaked in radium and polonium she handled bare-handed, readers must sign a waiver and wear protective gear. Radium's half-life is 1,600 years.
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