From notebooks to furniture: Why everything Marie Curie and her husband touched has so far been kept in lead-lined boxes
Marie Curie and her husband spent nearly four years boiling seven tons of pitchblende in a leaky, airless shed in Paris to isolate a tenth of a gram of radium chloride. Today, the notebooks they kept between 1899 and 1902 remain in lead boxes at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Anyone who wants to see … Read more