Marie Curie: My Notebooks Are Locked in Lead Boxes — Still Radioactive After 100 Years

Marie Curie reveals the eerie afterlife of her life's work: her original lab notebooks are so radioactively contaminated they're sealed in lead-lined boxes in Paris — and you still need a hazmat waiver to read them. She carried glowing isotopes in her coat pockets and kept vials by her bedside, enchanted by the light they made. She never knew what was slowly killing her.