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Marie Curie died of aplastic anemia from working with radiation and her coffin was later discovered by excavators to be lined with 2.5 mm thick lead.

No need for a modern laboratory or advanced equipment can come up with a great idea. Marie Curie became the famous female scientist from the most humid and shabby room a scientist

Marie Curie and her husband have won all 5 Nobel Prizes in 3 different fields but the passion for science also led the Curie mother and daughter to the same disease.