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Physicist’s Body Was So Radioactive Had to Be Buried in Lead-Lined Coffin
Even in death, Marie Curie’s body held a secret: it remained radioactive, requiring a special lead-lined coffin for burial.
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History KS3: Marie Curie - The person who discovered radium and polonium
Marie Sklodowska Curie died on 4th July 1934 ... She was buried in lead-lined coffin in a cemetery on the outskirts of Paris. Only in 1995 did the French government give Curie the recognition ...