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Family Affair
The Curie family was quite well known for their work in radiology and radium. Their daughter, Irene (1897–1956), would go on to win the 1935 Nobel Prize in chemistry. The other children were esteemed scientists in their own ways.
Pierre was an instructor at the School of Physics and Chemistry and would go on to hold the physics chair at the University of Paris created specifically for him. Despite this position, the Curies had to use a make shift laboratory located in a converted shed.
Jointly, the Curies are responsible for discovering two elements: polonium (named for her homeland of Poland) and radium. In time, they would create the word radioactivity. One of their 32 scientific papers dealt with radium and how when exposed to it, diseased and tumor-forming cells would die off quicker than healthy cells.
On April 19, 1906, Pierre was crossing the Rue Dauphine (at the intersection of Quai des Grands Augustins and the Pont Neuf) after lunch on a rainy afternoon when he was hit by a horse and slipped under the carriage. His skull was fractured and he died immediately.
Madame Curie was offered her husband’s position with the Sorbonne and became the first woman professor in the history of the University of Paris. She then went on to even greater achievements that resulted in many awards and recognitions. The Curies never acknowledged (or knew) the health dangers associated with prolonged exposure to radium. For years, she would carry around test tubes containing radioactive isotopes. Madame Curie would ultimately die of radiation exposure.
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ExplanPierre Curie died in a street accident in Paris on 19 April 1906. Crossing the busy Rue Dauphine in the rain at the Quai de Conti, he slipped and fell under a heavy horse-drawn cart. He died instantly when one of the wheels ran over his head, fracturing his skul. Statements made by his father and lab assistant imply that Curie's characteristic absent-minded preoccupation with his thoughts contributed to his death
Both the Curies experienced radium burns, both accidentally and voluntar, and were exposed to extensive doses of radiation while conducting their research. They experienced radiation sickness and Marie Curie died of aplastic anemia in 1934. Even now, all their papers from the 1890s, even her cookbooks, are too dangerous to touch. Their laboratory books are kept in special lead boxes and people who want to see them have to wear protective clothi. Had Pierre Curie not been killed as he was, it is likely that he would have eventually died of the effects of radiation, as did his wife, their daughter, Irène, and her husband, Frédéric Joliot
In April 1995, Pierre and Marie Curie were moved from their original resting place, a family cemetery, and enshrined in the crypt of the Panthéon in Paris. Marie Curie was the first woman to be honored in this way "for her own merits".